CHARACTER CHAT!!!!

Kim laughs. "Poke your fingers anywhere around me and i'll burn them off," she says, deadly serious.
"Kim..." Emily rolls her eyes.

Cricket cocked an eyebrow. "Unless you don't know what's 'appening in th' first place, an that's th' jist of pickpocketing aye?"

Kim merely smirks and sits back down. Emily sighs. "Find anything worth stealing, that is."

Cricket shrugged. "God knows why I would take anything from you guys, any'ow," he said and leaned against a wall.

"Aye, save it for th' lowlands," Finn said, and plopped down on a couch.

Kim chuckles. "Sounds like a fun place."

Cricket and Finn laughed at that. "Ah...no."

Finn smirked and paused a moment. "Picture...murky canals that smell like fish, lots of rain and not much shelter that y' don't 'ave t' fight for, gunfire, knives, enemies that pretend t' be friends, gangs, hard t' keep down any money at all." He shook his head and leaned back, hands behind his head. "Not fun."

Cricket frowned. "Well...there's th' playground side of it, of course," he said.(playground's where Winnie lives, where all the little kids claimed) "That's not as bad. Those kids there are proud, fight for their right t' make music, 'ave fun...th' thing is, that's where it ends. They 'ave music and fun, nothing else t' be proud of."

Kim
"Please. Give me the BA part," i laugh out.
Emily shakes her head. "Oh boy, Wildfire's coming out..."
"Hey!" I swag a finger at her. "Don't start, missy."

"Pft. Well of course you wouldn't think it's bad, miss comicbook queen," Cricket said. "Y' 'ave t' remember, I'm human. Try growing up there."

Emily laughs out loud. "Kim'll take that as a complement."
"Yes i will," she nods with a smile.

"Never said it wasn't," Cricket muttered, and ran a hand through his hair. They didn't know how lucky they were. If one of them whined one more time about something related to their powers he swore he'd punch them in the face.

Kim shrugs, sips her coffee. "Anyways, another day in this city."

Finn read the thoughts on Cricket's face, and decided to ignore them. He'd get over it. "What t' do?"

"I say we move again." Jess stretches with a yawn. "It's been real /fun/ around here but people i'd rather not see and a ton of other places i'd like to see."

Cricket: "Sounds like a plan." He stood up straight, and looked to Finn to see if he was coming. He nodded.

"Yay!" Jess jumped up, smiling.
Emily smirked. "Jeez, where does your energy come from?"
Kim shook her head. "Seriously...i need at least two cups of coffee to start comprehending what i'm going to eat for breakfast..."

Cricket chuckled. "Where to?"

Jess pauses, but flings the door open and steps out. "No idea! Let's find out!"

((I just sort of realized that Senet really should have been on his way by now. *tries to come up with a reason for him to have stayed*))

I straightened up as I felt a surge of energy. Someone was coming, and a signature like that could only belong to one person.
CRACK!
In a momentary blast of blue and white light, Sarah was standing in the room. Not the Sarah of this group, but the stubborn, headstrong, mana type, kick-your-ass-with-her-eyes-closed Sarah Rivers. Her auburn hair was messy, her black clothing was torn and dirty, and her gray eyes were livid.
"Where have you been?!" she demanded. Only the slight sagging of her shoulders betrayed any weariness from shifting. But damn, I wish I had as much energy as she did.
"I was--"
"You know Peter is going out of his mind?! What have you been doing all this time?!"
"I'm tryeeng to--"
"Really! We all scatter, and then you don't show up!"
"I 'ave--!"
"Do you know what we thought?! How worried we were?!"
"CAN I SPEAK?!" I shouted over her words. She shut up. Probably because I don't really yell, ever. "Zank you! What I was tryeeng to say was zat zehre ahre Sybek on zees plane! I was waiteeng fohr an oppohrtuneety to sheeft safely. I don't know 'ow many of zem zehre ahre, but zehre ees defeeneetely mohre zan one. Enough to be dangehrous. And you zjust sent zem a flahre. Zanks. We might zjust say, 'Look! Bondehrs 'eehre! Dhrag us to ze academy!'" My words surprised even me. I'm not really ever snarky, either.
"...Oh." It only took a moment for that Sarah confident face to come back, though. "Come on! I'm the mana type; they're no match for me!"
"All eet takes ees one touch," I reminded her sternly. "And you know zat ze entihre Sybek ohrganization ees lookeeng fohr you!"
"Yeah, well, they're not going to get me."
"You nevehr cease to amaze me, Hrivehrs," I said, pinching the bridge of my nose.
"You never cease to amuse me, Durand," she answered with a wry grin.

((So that's the reason. There are Sybek here. Good thing I had that group in Luna! And now that they've been sent a lovely signal, this could get interesting.

Also, we now know Senet's last name. Yay? By the way, it's pronounced "du-hrahn." The second D is silent.))

"HOLY CRAP! Do you want me to light this place up because i will if random people pop out of no where!" Kim yelled at the two of them, the air sparking. "Trying for a fuckin-"
Emily clamps her hand over her mouth. "Sorry about that, folks. I wouldn't suggest surprising her though."

Sarah snapped her attention to the swearing fire girl.
"Oh, you'll light this place up?!" Uh-oh. Her fire type-iness was kicking in. Small flames burst into life on her sleeves. "'Cause I swear to God, I'll--!"
I covered her mouth, carefully avoiding the fire.
"Now, now! We don't want zees place buhrneeng to ze ghround! Sweetch to watehr, Sahrah." The flames went out, and her shoulders relaxed. I removed my hand. "Doesn't zat feel bettehr?"
"Yeah," she replied. "I don't like fire too much, to be honest. I don't know how Peter stands it!"

Cricket had jumped back against the wall as the flames started sparking a little too close to his face for his liking, with one simple thought that had come seemingly out of nowhere: I don't like fire much.

Emily puts her hands on Kim's shoulders, cooling her down. "Alright, stop."
Sarah raises an eyebrow. "Well, this is all fun..." Another person i couldn't read, huh? Maybe it has something to do with those souls Senet keeps talking about.

Sarah, her head now clear, realized something.
"...Wait, was she making fire with no source?"
"Euh, eet's compleecated. Zey'hre not bondehrs, but zey 'ave weird powehrs. Zey wehre made een a lab ohr somezeeng. Eet's 'igh technology, and I'm not even goeeng to begeen tryeeng to undehrstand eet." I turned to everyone else. "Zees ees Sahrah. She's one of my teamates."
Sarah gave a small wave.

Jess pouted. "Ehh...never good with name repeats...."
"Please, Jess. There's like, seventeen Sarah's at our school. You saying you can't remember one more?" She jokes lightly.

"Oh, you won't fohrget zees one," I said with a grin. Sarah whacked me upside the head. "Aie!"

((Fun fact: "Aie" is the French version of "ouch." Like ouch, it can be used not only to convey hurt; one could employ it to say, "Ouch, that was a harsh blow."))