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Another message and she couldn't keep the giggles from bubbling up, it was just so funny and cute how Astrid worked. She was totally innocent and naive with all of this and it was just so precious.

Wow, since when had she been such an air head around a pretty girl? So it was true she wasn't this slick and suave woman or some master flirter, but she did all right. She had some confidence, so where the hell had it gone? Oh god this was what boys felt like around their crush wasn't it. Oh the poor sods, how could they function like this?

And now she felt sorry for teenage boys. Somehow.

If someone had told her at the start of the day she would be acting like an idiot in front of someone, someone who she had kind of helped realise their sexuality, she would have laughed them off. Yet here she sat, drink in hand and being all, teen aged.

It was moderately annoying that she was just like everyone else.

That, well that sorted out the stab part of the equation, Astrid could grow freaking crystals out of her feathers and they looked wickedly sharp. Like really, really sharp. It. Was. Awesome. "Those are amazing!" So she liked them, could anyone really blame her? The way the light caught them and was sent off in glittering patterns was just so entrancing. "Have you been able to do that for long?"

Some peoples mutations were just kind of jaw dropping and the French raven's was the best she'd ever seen. Jack might look really cool and Aleksander was gorgeous but this, this was on a whole different level.

So many questions, so many things she had to know and yet she got a bad feeling. Taking a quick look around there was more than one terrified face, the waitress had gone so pale! Were, were they scared of Astrid? Why!? All she'd done was show her mutation, she hadn't done anything wrong! Bigots, there were always bigots everywhere.

"Come on, I get the feeling some people in here are going to say some nasty stuff and frankly I don't think they even deserve our presence anyway." The words were said pretty loudly, loud enough that she hoped some of them would start feeling a little guilty about it.

"Fancy going for a walk?" Offering a hand as she slowly stood, being careful to not brush agaisnt the sharp wings, she hated having people act like this. Couldn't they just get over mutations, were they really that scary?

Vanessa clearly had somewhere in mind so she happily followed along after all she had the experience with the area and who was the newbie to argue with which way they were going. She didn't have to be back at the mansion for a while so a wander would be cool.

Alice couldn't help but laugh a little at some of the boss's quips. Nice to see her online persona was entire;y for show, there was fire there in her day to day and it was pretty refreshing to see. Too many people here were off put by swearing or sarcasm, acted a bit too polite for her tastes. Even as a supposedly 'refined' English lady she loved the give and take a friendship should have, the ability to tell a friend, with all sincerity, to f--- off from time to time.

"Then I get to learn from the best. How can I become the true b----y lesbian I was meant to be without a teacher." Not that she was one, mostly. Certain people and their backwards attitudes just tended to bring it out of her. Loudly. With a lot of swearing.

Yeah, that she knew. Some of her friends already got a little jealous of her weird ability to eat and never get fat, but most didn't actually know how bad it was. "It's not like I have much choice in it. Apparently I just have some kind of super metabolism. Makes it really hard to build muscle though." Sure, she didn't work out much, but after some attempts to get healthy with no result she just gave up. Best to stick to yoga and at least get some flexibility. "But I get it, mum's the word on the food front."

Dining in the village was kind of amazing, especially considering how big the place was in LGBT history. "Hard to not be excited eating out here, even with the cost. Heard of it back home when I was doing a little reading about LGBT stuff when I was a little more aware of who I was. And thanks, for the offer. Be a bit rude to turn down the boss after all."

Oh the restaurant looked so nice and they could did sit down without having to be seated? Sweet! "Oh, it a bit of a long story. I kind of ran away from home, a little. I'm living with my grandmother while my mums away with work and we've not exactly seen eye to eye on some stuff. Like her insistence on an arranged marriage she'd set up and stuff." God it was a bit embarrassing to say it. So many people left for real reasons, like abuse or that, she was just like a spoilt girl having a tantrum compared to them.

"It got bad enough that during one of our screaming matches she dropped the knowledge bomb that I had a long lost sister. Who'd I'd never met or even been told existed. I got an ultimatum over the marriage stuff so I left. Packed up some stuff, got on a plane and came here to find my sister." It was so damn useful her power actual;y worked, finding Serena was the major reason she was here now and able to get some many opportunities like this.

Breaking eye contact and looking down at her hands, she was still a bit uncomfortable talking about it, but Nessa was kind of awesome and out of anyone she could tell, her boss was the least likely to judge her.

That was, well that was freaking awesome! Kneeing someone was cool, jumping up to do it to their face was just kind of amazing. "Wow, props for that, that was epic. And the dummies weren't too hard, once I got past the fact this place could actually hurt me. Would have been nice to know that earlier though." She wasn't exactly mad but this place was dangerous, not knowing that could have put her in danger. "They went down easy enough when I figured going for the groin was a good idea."

"The display did register my drops in health etc from them doing damage but apart from that it doesn't really give me any info. Did help me gauge how dangerous they were though, which was cool." Not a great way to learn though, being able to get a rough guess before taking a hit would be a good idea.

At least she was getting better with trusting the map in unfamiliar places with weird layouts. Not many labyrinths a person tended to navigate in normal life but she could see why it was useful, making on the fly route changes and learning how to calculate them quickly was a pretty valuable skill. And not just for all that heroing, it'd probably save her time the next time she had to take the subway. 

No amount of reassuring from Nessa would changed the fact she owed the woman. Because she did. And her mentor was awesome. "That's a no brainer boss, although now that I've been claimed I do hope you'll stop anyone else stealing me. Young, blue haired interns are a precious commodity apparently." Well, not in the video game industry, where dyed girls with tattoos and piercings were kind of everywhere. Which was awesome for her love life, just not job opportunities. "Just make sure my supervisor knows when you grab me for whatever and we should be good on that front."

The idea of working in the same building as her internet idol was one thing, now she was staring at the possibility of working with her directly. Could this internship get any better? Awesome people, awesome work and awesome kit to get her hands on. It was a techies dream.

Hmm, she was right, talking about food wasn't a great idea. Brought back her constant reminder of the fact she had to eat so much, and that her bar was getting a little low. Why, why did her power have a hunger bar? Like having a load of stuff in her vision wasn't bad enough, she had to eat enough to stun an athlete. Hopefully Nessa hadn't been taking note of how often she had been snacking on energy bars or the weird number she had in various pockets on her. It was a little embarrassing to explain.

Even if she didn't get fat from eating all the chocolate and bacon.

"I could eat, all the time. Ever." Even without her power, she was a teenager. They ate all the time, so it was fair to assume a normal one would be hungry after a day doing grunt work. "Although I'm not looking forward to cooking when I get back to Xaviers" Loving cooking was one thing, trying to do it after a full day was another.

"Why, you thinking of grabbing some takeout or something?"

Oh this was exciting! She was getting a chance to see it's action settings in person. So cool to get a chance to check out how it all worked, how clever it could be. After all, if she was going to be making some games for the place, she had to know what it was like in person. It was all very scientific.

Alice did nearly protest at easy mode, but wisely kept her mouth shut. It might chafe to be a 'noob' here, but Maya knew better in this case. "Will do, hope the poor bots don't have feelings for when I kick their butts." Which was laughable considering her mentor was the best suited to know her combat abilities or lack thereof.

With the teacher blinking ahead, she did the smart thing, waited for her to stop, mapped a way and proceeded cautiously. With the mirrored walls and slowish speeds the bots moved at she managed to avoid a decent amount of them, recalculating her root whenever she was pushed of course. Then she fall smack bang into the open arms of one of them around a corner while she was too wrapped up in her mini-map to notice.

Good work Alice, now you have to deal with it using skills she'd literally just used. What could go wrong?

Going into the stance Maya had taught her she got a couple nice punches in until she got hit with a kick. That, that had hurt! This room could actually hurt her, what the hell!

Astrid seemed to react so weirdly to some stuff and other things were totally normal. Or just so innocent to it that it really wasn't a big deal to her. Either way she looked so pretty when she was blushing and that was something Alice was going to file away for later. Seeing her blush again was a definite goal. For totally innocent reasons.

Accepting the offered phone and quickly keying in her own number, it only took a second figure out what how to save it in contacts. It might be in french but a phone was a phone and they had pretty similar interfaces. Her's put in and checking her own phone quickly for some french translations she also had Astrids number memorised, handing the phone back to her.

Well, wasn't it usually harder to exchange numbers? At least with someone you fancied. Whatever this was going to be like between, Alice was damn sure it'd be fun.

"Ooo, grapes are nice. Never cooked with them much but I love them in fruit salads." Hard to hate grapes to be honest, they were sweet and succulent little balls of flavour. And wine. Wine was good.

Right she had a little information, a favourite food and a few plans on what she might want to make. Not too hard then, now she guessed they should just hang out have some fun? It'd be a cool way to get to know each other, maybe be a bit less awkward in their company. Being able to get through a few sentences without massive blushing or freaking out would be nice.

She was so pretty it hurt though! How had she scored a date with someone like her?

Oh she'd be squeeing so much to her friends over the next few days, chances are they'd get very sick of her talking about the french angel she'd met, who'd then asked her out.

Every little movement, every slight bob kept drawing Alice's eyes back to the wings. She had to know. "I kind of have to ask but can you fly with your wings? That'd be so cool." They were very big and she was so thin, it seemed possible and if it was, that must be so amazing. Soaring over the city, looking down on everyone below.