"Good company definitely can make all tha diff'rence." She replied, skipping alongside him contentedly. She liked to eat out with groups of people, didn't matter where. That was one thing she missed about home. She had a nice, big group of friends. She wondered if they knew she was gone at all, if they cared. She supposed she could check facebook or something, but she didn't want anyone to know where she was. She didn't want to know what they had been saying about her. "Yeh, I noticed. Every'fin 'bout New York is weird." She liked it, of course, as much as one could like the place they were escaping their life from, but there was nothing wrong with it.
She snickered at her own comedic genius and Oren told her, once more, to hold on to that. There seemed to be a list of things she should hold on to. Humor, and happiness. Well, that didn't seem so hard. Then again, it had just really sunk in that she joined a side in a War she had known nothing about previously, where humans had done terrible things to people like herself. Maybe, in time, it would be difficult to hold on to those things. And then where would she be? A mutant without any power, because she couldn't call it up without being happy. She wondered how people got their triggers - was it a condition of their personality? Was it built in to their genetics? Was it life circumstance? She wanted to know, but then, those might have been questions the Scientists had. That made her shudder.
Oren went on to explain how amazing the Cheesecake was here and she went back to smiling. "Tha' does sound good. I'll ge' plain this time, on yer word, but nex' one I want Raspberry." She had a thing for raspberries. The way he described the cheesecake she really couldn't imagine a better thing for after a funeral visit and a history lesson on her people, so to speak. It was still early enough, she thought she might have tea but nothing went with dessert quite like a good cup of coffee. She kept the name of the place in her head, trying to memorize it before she went in, Oren having held the door open for her. "I don' 'ave much reason ta be at tha cemetery but tha' don' mean I won' be comin' here if it's a good as yeh say."