- JADE, VASILY, SANDY, ASH -
Sandy followed them into the room but immediately regretted doing so. The kids had started panicking when a large dog had tackled someone and started chewing on his neck, they panicked more when the dog had sort of been set alight. Sandy's head started swimming and she could feel the pressure building behind her eyes. She stumbled, catching herself on the edge of a box and even after they'd stopped outwardly panicking and Jade was talking to them, their racing thoughts were almost too much for her to take. So that they didn't hear anything else, she used her secondary ability to suppress the sounds, replacing the grunts and snarls with a breeze, a sound that was innocuous, allowing her voice and Jade's to get in but nothing else. They didn't need to be any more traumatised than they were.
She felt their eyes turn to her as much as she didn't hear whatever it was that Jade had actually said, but she picked it up enough. we're saved -- they're gonna get us out -- home -- is that guy dead? -- why was that fire blue? -- we have a super in the field -- I wanna go home -- can we leave now? -- who are these guys? -- can I keep the dog? -- what's the purple thing? -- are these supers? -- are they gonna hurt us? -- are we in trouble?
She shook her head, trying to dislodge the thoughts and managed to offer the kids a warm smile.
"I know you're scared," she said, her and Jade's voices being the only ones she was letting the kids hear, "But we're the good guys." Her voice was strained and it was clear to anyone watching her that she was in pain. She used the boxes to make her way to the opened portal.
She reached out and took the outstretched hand of a little girl, squeezing it gently before she just picked her up. The kids weren't that old, and this one seemed so much smaller and younger.
"You got the back of them?" she asked Jade, tightening her hold on the little girl and beginning to round the kids up, guiding them through the portal and hoping that the Super was otherwise occupied.