Jubilee walked through the Park, head down, headphones on, lost in her own world. Ahead on the path she saw a group of pigeons, bobbing their heads like a group of--well, that was just obscene. She forced herself to think of anything else. She was heading downtown on foot for a little ways; she could have taken the subway, but the weather wasn't bad and she wanted a bit of fresh air. Her task of applying at Hunter College completed--Professor Xavier, knowing her ineptitude with technology, had instructed her to apply in person on paper--she was rewarding herself with a little time down in the arcade in the Village.
As she approached the flocking, snacking pigeons, she skirted the group of them, trying not to make them all fly away in a panic--and, out of the corner of her eye, she saw who was feeding them: Ororo.
Jubilee pulled off one ear of her headphones. "Hi."