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Abby sighed as she looked in the classroom.  It wasn't one of the more damaged places, but there was still debris along the outer wall.  Lifting her mop and small metal pail, the blonde went towards the puddles she could spot.  She would pick up any obvious things that needed thrown out but as she didn't spend much time in this room, she would leave most things to the adults.


She still wasn't quite sure how the water was still there, but she knew it needed cleaned.  She was too small to help with the larger bits of reconstruction.  And she knew most of the focus wasn't on the classrooms yet.  Living areas were priority after all.  Putting her mop to work, Abby started to think about the email she had gotten from her Aunt.  The fight was on the news and her aunt was worried about her.

But Abby hadn't talked to her Aunt and Uncle since before she was de-aged.  She had actually thought they abandoned her until the adults at the school were able to prove everything to her.  It still felt a bit like they left her though.  Her therapist said that was normal though.

"Clean up, clean up," Abby started singing. "Every~body, every~where."

Should she tell her Aunt and Uncle she was young again?  They hadn't reached out until now that Abby was aware of.  Though maybe the adults had told them.  She still wasn't quite sure how the legal things worked with de-aging.  The adults told her not to worry about it.

"Clean up, clean up, everybody do your share."

On one hand, Abby felt pretty let down that Miss Lenna couldn't (or wouldn't, she still wasn't sure) prove she was a mutant. (Abby wasn't sure if she believed the woman when she said she was a mutant either though so...) The idea that she might have be older and was attacked and turned in to a kid again was... well Abby wasn't sure what she thought about it.

It was a better thought than her Aunt and Uncle abandoning her in some random city. But was it true or was Miss Lenna just being nice? It also explained the weirdly large dress she was wearing. But...

”Your clothes do not fit. When I first was deaged, my clothes did not fit. Tell me, do you remember the last day?”

"School was over. I took a bath," Abby paused. "Showers hurt. Aunt Theresa knocked on the door. I was taking longer than normal. I had tried to make friends at school but they kept teasing me about my legs." Abby stopped as she felt more tears forming. She took several deep breathes. "Then I woke up here."

Abby sucked in a breath as Miss Lenna finished her sentence for her. While not the words she had planned on using... They weren't wrong either. Abby couldn't decide if she should agree or disagree.

”Tell me your tale. I will listen.”

Abby froze again. It took several deep breaths for her to respond in any way. Finally she lifted part of the dress to show the woman her legs. "I'm bad," she whispered.

Abby blinked as the dress caught on her legs. Glancing down, she spotted scales instead of just... gray skin. Did she... change? How? When? Abby's breathing picked up again as she panicked. Would she one day. Become an actual shrak.

"Cafas is... He takes care of me, but I think my Uncle still has custody of me. Maybe." That would probably be something to ask Maya or Cafas. It seemed like something she should know. Though it was doubtful Aunt Teresa would allow her to be adopted by Cafas legally.

The pool! "I love the pool. It's big enough for me to swim laps." Which wasn't as easy as it sounded since her tail gave her extra length. And sharks rarely grew bigger than the area they lived in. "I usually go when it's empty. At least I used to. I could probably go with others now. They shouldn't freak out anymore." She didn't think so at least. She was pretty well known now, having been here for years.

The blonde giggled as Allegra explained what her friends had gotten in trouble for. "The most trouble I've been in is I forgot to tell Cafas I was spending the night at a friends," she giggled.

"I only wish the beaches were cleaner. I hate having to swim in dirty water." And the water around New York was rather dirty. She hadn't gone swimming in the ocean in years. Abby was pretty sure a few years would not change the water's cleanliness a lot.

She was glad Allegra wouldn't make her go shopping. It was nice not to worry about that. The older girls had kinda forced her to dress up in the beginning. Now she rather liked trying new styles and clothes. So long as people weren't staring.

"The Danger Room is mostly like a gym, yeah. It just has a really cool holographic system which lets you create anything in there. I heard sometimes it gets used for things like dates. Though I think that was for adults. On its own it just looks like a giant room so yeah, kinda gym like." It was really hard to explain now that she thought about it. Abby didn't actually know how it all worked. Something to ask Cafas or Sam later.

Abby frowned at Allegra's question on Mama T. "I don't think so. It's temporary. I think she just... puts our mutations asleep." Maybe. That's what happened to Astrid. She couldn't feel her wings anymore. Though Abby still wasn't sure about it. "I can show you her office if you'd like. So you can ask more questions. I don't know a whole lot."

Small? Most of the rooms had to fit two people. So... "You might have one of the single rooms. Does it only have the one bed?" Well, no that wasn't a good indicator either. Adder's room only had the one bed and he had a roommate. But still... "How much stuff did you bring?" The rooms had always been big enough for her things. But maybe Abby didn't have as much stuff.

Abby giggled a little at Alice's comment about the boys. She personally thought they were silly to try to get something like that past the teachers. The blonde had learned to only pull out her books when she was done with her work, or the teachers said she could.

She was beginning to figure out the fighting game the device held. She didn't typically like violence, but it was kind of fun figuring out how to get the character to attack or defend. Or jump attack. That was really hard for her fingers to do.

"I know Serena!" she beamed. Though it did end up with her loosing track of the game and cause her character to be hit and die. "Aw. I died." She frowned and restarted the match before continuing. "I met Serena when I first came here. She's really nice. She started my self-defense lessons. Then pointed me to Sam to keep them going. At least, if your sister Serena is the Serena I know." Abby knew that there were often people with the same names going through around the same time. There were two "Jack"s she knew of after all.

>>"Do you like it here, at the mansion I mean?"

"I do! I've made lots of friends since I came here. And I have a family again," she then remembered the last time she tried to explain her family. "My parents died a long time ago. But I have Papa and Maya and Adder now. My aunt isn't too happy about it, but my uncle is happy for me!"

She died again. It was her own fault since she wasn't paying attention. "You really have to focus on this," she commented. "I consider this home now," she admitted, turning from the game. "I haven't been back to my Aunt's house since... two summers ago? Maybe. I can't really remember. But I prefer being here to anywhere else. I don't get stared as much for my teeth and skin. It's nice to belong somewhere."

Abby couldn't stop herself from looking over the device in her hand. It reminded her of the things Panu had in his room. Though probably not as... techy as what he had.

"These look like the ones the boys hide in class and the library," the blonde giggled. She grinned at Alice. "They always get in trouble though."

Finding the power button, she started whatever game the older girl had inside. "So, uh, your sister's here too?" The shifter resisted the urge to cringe at her conversation attempt. She wasn't so good at it.