Who: Illyana OTA What: Magik gets brave and goes exploring When: Monday Afternoon Where: The Library Warnings: none
Illyana had been recovering as much as she could in the company of her roommate. The third roommate, the one she'd met while still a prisoner, had been dealing with a family crisis, or she had been told. Illyana could not imagine how much of a crushing blow that would be: to finally be free, only to learn that your mother had died while you had been a slave to the evil men.
Usually she only walked about the Haven with Katya or her brother. Sometimes with Dr. Mike, since he had been relegated to the 'safe' category some time ago. Generally speaking, though, she did not go out alone. Still, today she was bored. She had finished her lessons with the professor, who was working with her to get her powers under control, and he had told her that there were some books in the library she might like, written by physicists on the theories of inter-dimensional travel. There was some thought that perhaps the 'grey place' she had spent so much time in was one of those dimensions, and it would be good for her to know the theory, since it might make it easier for her to control the power that took her there. She didn't know if that was true, but she was bored and so she figured she might as well try it and see. She was learning to control the blasts of power, something that made her feel imminently safer in general, so learning to control the dimensional shift was the next thing to tackle head on.
Finding the books where the professor had said they'd be, she took them and curled up in a chair, feet tucked under her, turned sideways with her back against the arm and her head against the backrest. Horrible deportment, to be sure, but comfortable for the girl who desperately wanted to be safe. Of course, just being here was a breakthrough for the young Russian woman, and she knew it as she settled in to read.