則 Nori (electrician) wrote in academy_x, @ 2010-04-28 15:56:00 |
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Entry tags: | hellion, surge, white queen |
Who: Noriko, Julian, OTA!
When: Wednesday afternoon sometime.
Where: The drive in front of the mansion.
What: Homeless Nori shows up, Julian doesn't like it, there are TURF BATTLES! It's like the 90s around here! Only with better hair.
Nori had been crouched in the bushes outside the school for a while now, just observing the drive from outside the gates, watching and waiting to see what was going on today and judge whether it was safe to try to go in. It didn't look anything like the schools she was used to, but according to the name on the gate, this was the place she'd heard about.
Walking here had been a strange experience: it was only a few miles from town, but Nori had spent most of her life in major cities: Tokyo, San Francisco, then New York. She wasn't used to the country, wasn't used to bugs and raccoons and deer, wasn't used to so many trees and all this grass and other plants she couldn't put a name to. A couple times she'd almost turned around and gone back to Salem Center, but each time her hand had closed around the bottle of pills in her jacket pocket, and she'd gone on with new determination. She had to try Xavier's institution, and soon, because these pills would kill her if she didn't find some other way of gaining control. She was carrying everything she owned, which wasn't really much: the clothes she wore, another set of clothes and some money in the pack she carried, some more money hidden in various places in her clothing (because she wasn't stupid enough to put it all in one place -- and she'd left a good chunk of the money she'd saved up back in a very secure hiding place in New York, in case this place wasn't legit and she needed to run back there), two months' worth of Haldol in case it was that long before she could get more, and the two folding knives tucked into the lining of her jacket and the side of her boot, respectively.
They probably knew she was here, anyway. A mansion like this, they had to have some pretty good surveillance cameras around -- she couldn't even see them, which meant that they had to be really good, because Nori was very good at spotting hidden cameras. They could probably see her and were just waiting for her to make a move. And, well, it was time to do something; if it turned out she had to run after all, if these people weren't what she'd heard from the people back in Mutant Town, she wanted to have enough daylight to get back to Salem Center. Being stranded in the woods at night was not something she wanted to try.
She stood up, brushing the dirt from her jeans as best she could, and walked out into the drive, starting up toward the school. She'd been watching long enough. It was time to risk it all and hope she wasn't making a truly dangerous mistake.