Aura had not spent much time in the Medical center, her wounds were mostly flesh deep. Her Aura absorbed most of the damage inflicted by the fall, even in its weakened state. Aura had no idea who the people were in that van, but she knew one thing, if their were more of them, she would make them pay as well. Vengeance demanded that much at least, her anger maybe more so. She questioned as well if the first group was not trying to heard her into the area for the van. Either way it upset Aura the people had gotten Allsion that far, under her watch. Aura knew the solution, train more until she had the power that things like this wouldn't keep happening. She need the power to protect other mutants far better, she had won the day of course, but she had to do better if it happened again and Aura had Little doubt it would, they were Mutants and it was a way of life.

Aura smiled as she Unsheathed the dagger, and looked over the fine blade. With a smile, Aura sheathed it The blade was beautiful even unadorned. Putting it away, Aura saw the room coming up and knew from experience the Medical staff rarely liked patients bringing in their own blades if they could help it. Aura could understand why after all, the Medical staff were non-combat personal mostly and many of the patients were violent enough without extra weapons.

Aura walked into the room and noted the look of puzzlement on the nurse when she saw Aura was unwounded. Aura often occupied a bed in the place when the staff could keep her there anyway. Aura knowing the place quite well quickly worked out where her friend was, upon spotting her she smiled and sat down. "Hope your feeling a little better, those Humans hurt you a bit more then i thought" she said looking away at the last part. "has anything like this happened before?" Aura asked wondering if maybe allsion had seen these guys before or if they had tried to take her in before. Whoever it was had seemed really well organized.

Allison should, probably, have been scared. Or worried, or confused, or something. And she was, a little bit; being sort of temporarily kidnapped could do that. Mostly, though, she was bored.

Allison knew hospitals were boring. Especially when she had a concussion, because then she wasn't allowed to sleep to get through the boredom. She'd hoped that the Sanctuary's medical wing... well, actually, she'd hoped never to be in the Sanctuary's medical wing (except for blisters. She couldn't avoid those, it seemed). But, apparently needing to be here, it was disappointing to learn that they hadn't done anything to make it more interesting than other hospitals.

Really, you'd think they'd know better than to let a bunch of injured, in pain, already generally pissy mutants sit there with nothing to do but stew in their frustration. Apparently not, though. Maybe the hospital staff included a mutant who could make forced nonviolence areas, or something. She didn't see how else they had survived. Or maybe they had stuff to make it more interesting, but said stuff was reserved for the mutants with more destructive abilities.

That thought... was unfair, and probably wildly inaccurate, but still pissed Allison off. She wanted a destructive ability. It wasn't her fault hers was useless. She'd be destructive if she could!

...Well, that was a disturbing thought process to catch yourself in. Allison put the thought aside as firmly as possible (which was not very, as the idea was far more persistent than it had any right to be) and tried to focus on....

...Hm.

There wasn't much to focus on, really, except being kidnapped, which led to the same thought anyway. Maybe that was why it was so persistent.

As a result, while Allison would normally have been somewhat irritated at Aura's presence--she knew she needed rescuing, but she still hated the fact--she was instead quite relieved when the younger woman appeared.

And of course the woman would immediately ask about what she'd been trying to avoid. Allison couldn't quite bring herself to be mad, though, and instead just shrugged. "More than I thought, too." She'd suspected her arm was hurt, but the broken ribs were a surprise. And the fingers. She hadn't even noticed her fingers hurting; how had she managed to miss broken fingers? That ought to have been painful enough to get through anything distracting her.

"I... well, I've... conflicted with groups that dislike mutants before," and ended up in the hospital one of those times, too. She was really coming to hate hospitals, "but the van... stuff... was new." She had a few ideas why it might have happened, though why now was a bigger question. It couldn't be that well-kept of a secret that her family wasn't speaking to her, could it?

...She hoped not. She wanted nothing to do with any more black vans.

"I think we all have done that once or twice" Aura said with a nod. Sometimes meetings with humans got ugly. Aura knew their was considerable conflict between herself and the police and she did have a group try and go after Meld and herself so maybe this was not as odd as she thought. Still Aura knew she survived it because of her Aura, and looking upon Allsion was a reminder of her own likely outcome had she lacked it, if she had lived that long she reminded herself.

"So the van group was separate would make sense,the woman were unarmed, they should survive, but the guys in the van were dressed alike and had guns"[/color she said knowing that Alison likely knew most of that already, but Aura wanted to recap what they knew. "I have been trying to find out more about them" she said. She was waiting for her sources to get back to her which she figured would not take long.

Aura the smiled slightly. "In any case those particular men will never harm any other mutant. I may have went overboard though, i was a Little pissed she said with a laugh. She normally despised such outbursts of emotion in battle but this time it had worked out well, she just prayed Lori was not watching the news about now. Still it had felt pretty good to simply lash out and be creative.

"You manipulate Ink you said, can i see? I Like seeing others mutations because their all so different" she said with genuine interest that somehow brought her down to a more normal level. Her Aura surrounded her still a thin layer of pink, one would almost miss if not looking for it, but slowly the aura seemed to grow deeper and turned a more visible shade of transparent pink.

Allison shrugged. She really hadn't, until she got to New York, but then she'd never really been alone to get into the situation. So it was perfectly possible that she was the exception.

Allison nodded along as Aura described what she already knew, not paying much attention, but sat up when Aura said she'd been trying to learn about the kidnappers. "You have? Why? ...How?"

Allison tried to smile at Aura's laugh, but still glanced away. She might have been pissed about the whole situation, but she still didn't like feeling responsible for anyone's death. Especially not what she guessed were particularly painful deaths.

Her mutation was a welcome change of topic, unlike usual. "Oh. Sure." It took a second to remember where her ink was this time. The ink from her face... was still in her eyes, wasn't it? At least she hadn't blinded herself, though she was kind of dreading seeing a mirror, since she probably hadn't gotten the placement right in the least. She wasn't willing to mess with it any more, though, and instead held up one of her hands, lifting the ink that had been lines growing up her fingers so it hovered above her hand. "Like this. I can't control it for very far, and I have to practically be touching it to get control of it. And I can't control very much. But as long as it's close enough I can do about anything with it."

"Well if a group like that is trying to kidnap mutants they must of course be stopped. We must protect each other and knowing if they will harm other Mutants will help with that, also they could try to kidnap you again" Aura stated openly. She was not one to hide information or concerns, certainly so when it came to ones safety. "I know some details about them from the encounter." Aura said having kicked herself mentally for not interrogating one of the men.

"That's an interesting ability, she said as she watched ink float there. The amount she could control could increase over time Aura would imagine. Still weather the girl knew it or not the ability made her valuable. . "It's a beautiful ability, though Im not sure how it could protect you. Either way it looks very pretty" Aura said considering the mutations. For once beyond the obvious she had trouble seeing what this girl could do. "So could you change the Ink on a $1 bill into a $5?" she asked aware that such an act would be criminal.

Aura smiled having an urge to show off, from her eyes came what looked very much like a pink fluid, it coated her node and mouth and continued on down her neck and then her body, as the Aura began to envelop her, wrapping around her back and sliding up the back of her head until she was coated. "I can control how hard it becomes and even shape it at will but only till about 8 inches from my body, but within that distance i can do almost anything with i, but anyone can see me use it, makes being in public rough" she said. Her Aura did turn off of course, but police and gangsters knew her face well.

"Oh." Allison considered that for a moment, but couldn't really fault the logic. It would be good to know if they'd come after her again... or even just why they had. And, well, she wasn't the only mutant who couldn't protect herself, so it was good that mutants like Aura were willing to fill in.

She couldn't really imagine Drew needing help, though. Or at least he would've been somewhat helpful, instead of completely useless like she was. Emma... well, that would depend on what she'd smelled recently. But if she was in the right mindset, anyway, she'd be lethal. Allison was pretty useless no matter what.

...She was kind of, sort of, a little tiny bit glad of that, though, at the moment. It would've been nice to be able to protect herself, or scare off anyone who attacked her. Actually killing people, though... she just couldn't stop thinking about the people Aura had killed, and wondering what their families were like, shying away from imagining what they'd felt or thought in the last seconds they had. So it was nice to know that even if she was the cause of peoples' deaths, at least she wouldn't ever be the one who killed them.

"It was a lot of fun in high school." Allison concentrated on the ink, watching as it floated back to her hand and into her skin. The pain-freeze-burn-itch was almost pleasant, compared to everything else she'd been feeling recently. "Not much use since, though." She grinned, not really amused at the memory but willing to pretend she was. "Oh, it can't protect me at all, except through bluffing someone into backing down before they realize what it is. Even that's pretty limited, though, since I can't mess with my eyes. I tried that once, and halfway blinded myself." She raised her uninjured hand to rub over her eyes. "Although, well. Apparently I can mess with the whites of them, so that's something."

She blinked at Aura's question, letting her hand fall back down as she considered it. "I... could, in theory, but I'd have to know exactly where every bit of ink was on each bill, and the one dollar bill would have to have the right amount of the right colors. So maybe with an older bill, if I learned enough about it, but probably not the colored ones." That was an interesting thought. Not a practical one, really, but an interesting one.

The look Allison turned on Aura's aura was, at first, a bit wary, as so far she hadn't really seen it when there wasn't immediate danger. That shifted to interest quickly enough, though, as she watched it move. "I wish I could make the ink hard, that'd me useful. I could make little needles or razor discs or something to throw at people that way. Especially if the ink was... oh...." She trailed off, staring into space as her mind caught up with herself. Ink was toxic, sometimes. She'd always been careful to keep it from getting more than the minimum depth under her skin, just in case it came to a blood vessel. What if she did send the ink deep into someone's skin, into a vein?

...What if she found a poison toxic enough that she could mix a small enough amount in to keep control of her ink, and still have it do what she wanted?

Allison blinked back to reality and grinned at Aura, triumphant enough to be on the edge of bouncing if she'd had more energy. Alright, so poison wasn't exactly an immediate weapon, it wouldn't really help her in a fight, but hey. It was something. That was better than she'd had five seconds ago. "I just figured out how to make ink dangerous."

Aura smiled thinking to herself what the girl was saying. She did not recall high school but she could imagine how this girl must have felt, her power unable to help her directly on combat. "Well with study then perhaps and could you not use 2 $1 bills to make one five or ten?" she said trying to prompt the girl with ideas. Aura was off the mind that no mutation was pointless or useless, they all had a reason nature had given them these powers.

She smiled a bit more as Allsion came to the realization of just what her powers could do. Aura did not understand yet of course, she knew the girl could not harden the ink to a point to make a weapon from her words. " I have little experience with powers different from my own, but i believe each power has it's use and your power is beautiful, much like yourself" she said, which she felt was true, the strange part was the fluttering feeling she felt in her chest.

"Thats great, if you need any help or need anything i can help" she said not sure if their was really much she could do. . Aura ran a hand through her tangled black locks. Aura looked like she had never seen anything remotely girly in her life, and it mostly true. "Or i could send someone to get something from your room" she said wanting to make herself helpful to Allsion. Aura was unsure how she was feeling inside she just knew it was strange

"Maybe. I'd have to check the colors on them. Or just get ahold of the right ink somehow." That would be difficult. Actually, either would be difficult, but the second would be more difficult to hide, and probably Allison shouldn't be thinking about either option, but... well, it was hypothetical. She wasn't planning to actually do it. There was nothing wrong with hypothetical, right? If there was, authors would have to start being arrested for killing off characters, or writing about criminals.

Allison blinked, confused by the end of Aura's comment, then blushed. Or possibly not, she couldn't really tell without a mirror. She hoped she wasn't, but it felt like she was. Sometimes she felt like she was when she wasn't anyway, but not often. Treacherous blood vessels. "Um. Thanks." Now that she thought of it, Aura had made comments like that before, when she'd been too focused on other things to really notice. "I, uh. I thought that, some inks are toxic, and I know I could get them into someone's veins, so I could poison someone that way. And maybe I could mix poison into the ink, if the poison was strong enough that I wouldn't have to put much in. It wouldn't be good for a fight, really, unless I could get right up next to them and then get away long enough for it to work, and I couldn't carry it in my skin, but it'd work. Sort of. If I am ever in a position where I need to poison people." Actually, Allison kind of really hoped she wouldn't ever be in a position that needed that. She couldn't imagine it being a good one.

"I... can't think of anything, really. Not right now." Her room didn't have much that would be useful. She supposed she could get some ink and some other substance and test whether she could mix it into the ink, and how much, and how it affected what she could do, but she didn't really think the medical staff would like her playing around with lethal poisons, and what if different substances had different limits? Water was in ink anyway, so she ought to be able to mix nearly as much as she wanted of that in and control it still, so long as the ink was water-based. She didn't think it would work quite that easily, though.

"I don't know much about money or how it's made, heck i only know theirs ink on it because of you" Aura said admitting to her rather low mental grasp on money itself. She could count it sure, but she had no concept of what was walking around money and what would get the average girl robbed. Despite having it explained to her a few times, Aura had decided it did not matter, as it usually was not needed to follow her orders.

Poisens? now there was an idea. Aura had no idea the potency of ink poisons but she knew snakes relatively well. "Well some snakes can kill in under thirty minutes, so it could all depend on the type that you use" she said trying to offer help where she could. She was glad Allison was already thinking of new things she could do with her power, but she had a feeling deadly poison was not going to be aloud in the infirmary.

"We can grab some if you like when your better" she said as if she were saying they would grab it at a grocery store. Of course Aura was unsure if Allsion could hold anything like that in her ink. "Can you form a ball of ink and hold something else?" she asked still interested in her new found friend's powers.

" What do you like to do?" she asked changing the subject a bit. She felt bad the girl had been hurt while with her it was something that she tried to avoid. Aura was fine with her own death and wounds but disliked not being able to protect others from the same. Now that Aura thought about it, Ghost had laid in the same room, though her wounds had closed quickly do to the healer the order then had.

"It's a lot of special inks. Except the watermarks, I'm not sure how those are made. I think it's specialty ink, but I don't know." Allison had learned about how money was made... sometime in elementary school. Her class had taken a field trip to see how money was made, or something. She didn't remember learning much about bills, though; most of what they'd talked about was coins.

Smart of them, if you discounted the amount of paranoia needed to suspect third graders of forgery.

"Well, I wouldn't be able to add much, I don't think. And I'd still need to keep from being hurt for half an hour, which seems a bit long... although, exercise speeds most poisons up, so running might help." And she was fairly good at running away, if nothing else, so long as it wasn't a mutant she was running from.

Allison considered the question before shrugging. "I've never tried. I might be able to hold gases, anything solid seems unlikely though, unless I spun the ink fast enough to keep it from falling, or something... that'd be pretty hard to do for very long."

Allison blinked at the change of topic, but considered. "Uh. I like music. And I run, although I can't really decide if I like it or not." She had been wishing she could sing while she was there, although she hadn't in a while; she'd been too busy to really spend that much time on music. And she didn't think that whoever was in the rooms near her would appreciate her singing or playing, anyway.

"I see, i had no idea those green bills were so complicated" The honesty was obvious in her voice. She usually just stored whatever money she obtained from various gangsters and loose woman she murdered, hobos rarely had anything of value. "you could litterly rewrite history...in a book of course but not many can say that" Aura said entirely unaware of the amount of work it might entail.

"well the venom works quicker then that, Coral snakes have a powerful neurotoxin for example, that paralyzes the breathing muscles. Not many can fight without air in their lungs" Aura said recalling the bit of information from a mission she had once done with miracle. "I'm not sure on other snake venom though" she said. she knew their was a difference just not how much os one their might be.

"At first i could only form my aura around my hand and my time was limited with it. My first Leader had me practice" Aura said bringing her fingers up, her Aura burst into veiw above her thumb and proceded to fade and light up on the next finger in sync, aura continued onto her left hand and smiled. "At least here, u can learn without worrying to much" Aura said thinking back of her past.

"I Like combat, girls, meeting new people and cats" she said honestly. "Music can be great though, and running can be fun at times, and annoying on other" she said thinking about how much she had run from the local police departments.

Allison blinked, and frowned just slightly as she considered that. "I... could. With the way they line up the margins, there would be room to adjust how much space the words took up. Although there's still the issue of how much ink was there... and it would be obvious if you compared it to another copy of the book...." She shook her head, trying to get rid of the overly-critical thoughts. "Well, confusing people would be fun."

Allison rolled her eyes. "My luck would have me run into someone who doesn't need air. And then they'd decide not to kill me because it wouldn't be entertaining enough, or something." That was a bit of an exaggeration, but it felt like what would happen to her.

"I've never been able to do anything more than what I could." Allison leaned back a bit, half-cautiously settling into the bed and making a face. "I can do some things a little faster, patterns that I use a lot, just because I'm used to them, and I don't have to think so much about them. And, well, putting ink in my skin doesn't hurt so much anymore, but I think that's just because I've gotten used to it. Nothing about what I actually do has changed at all."

Aura liked girls. Okay. Allison... was not quite sure how to respond to that. Or to combat. Not that she didn't think she might enjoy it as well, but so far it was mostly frustrating. Most things that Allison didn't do well were just frustrating to her. "Um. Do you normally meet people by randomly saving them?"

That was a horrible response. Allison really couldn't think of anything better, though.

"We all have our weaknesses, im not much for ranged combat myself. Some people may just not be meant for combat. Still i do not believe any mutation is useless, though i must admit i have littile knowledge of ink's" she said shaking her head. She was unsure how Allison could be useful with her powers in combat. Their were other forms of fighting however, like the martial art's. Aura did not know them however as her Aura had usually been enough.

"I have on a few occasions, usually from a single human though. I care deeply for our people. Still it is not the useual way i like to meet people, i would rather we have bumped into each other at the dining hall." she said honestly. Aura liked to fight but she did not like other mutants getting hurt by humans. " Many Mutants have powers where they can not easily defend them selfs, if i can help them survive, then i should" Aura said with a shrug. She felt every human she killed made her people just a little more safe.

Aura did not know why but she felt Allison was different somehow from anyone else she had saved. "I am on the streets a lot, playing with gang members so i sometimes run into people in trouble. Most however do not end up as hurt as you did. One time humans fired at me, the bullet deflected off and hurt a friend." Aura said recalling ghost. She had brought her to Sebastian to heal her.

"Ink would be wonderful for art, if only I was an artist." Allison started to shake her head, then remembered that was potentially very painful and stopped. "So I guess it's not so much that ink is useless, it's just useless for anything I want to do."

"Mm. Might be good you didn't. Meet me in the dining hall, that is." Allison brushed her hair back, then realized she hadn't needed to and dropped her hand back down. "My schedule's odd enough, I'm not there very often."

"I... don't think I've ever been shot at before. Had stuff thrown at me, but not shot at." Allison really hoped irony wasn't listening. Or Murphy's Law. Either one would demand that someone immediately run in and try to shoot her.

"well another thing to consider is that powers can change and grow like our bodies. Sometimes we gain powers we never knew we had" She said. Aura was no artists either. She was a fair carpenter however. She had seen people gain new powers like Meld. Aura could not say it happened to everyone however, it certainly had never happened to her. Still she knew it could happon and believed nature gave it's children no useless abilities.

"Yeah well i routinely fight gang members and have various run in with law enforcement. So it's to be expected. It can be a real pain sometimes though, for example i have to hide my face in public" she said honestly. It made travel annoying sometimes, and her kills were often easy to identify, as her attacks often left clean cut bone behind.

"I must ask however what you think of human kind? I myself have no love for humans" curious as to the girls answer. Aura despised humanity simply because they harmed mutant kind and could be a threat to the choice of the planet to eliminate them. It was a veiw she knew some mutants did not hold, but one day every mutant would understand the danger humans were.