The past two - two and a half weeks had been a very interesting one for Katherine Pryde. She'd left New York and flown to Chicago for a three day visit with her mother. Then she had gotten back on a plane and flown to California. They had offered to have someone meet her at the airport but she had wanted to do some sight seeing while she was there. Of course that had ended up with her going to the mutant-rights rally and that's where everything got all weird and fuzzy. Ugh.
It had been simple enough, get on the plane, get off the plane, go to the island. Right, so why hadn't it been simple at all? Well, because it was her life of course, simple was boring. she'd had to go exploring, see this rally, maybe even bump into some of the other students and teachers when they weren't on their 'best behavior' for the new kid. What she had seen though, was Chaos. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't going to help mutant rights and she had been dumb enough to get caught up in it. One minute it seems like there she was standing in line waiting for a soda and a burger, checking out the hunky boy in line in front of her, and the next minute she had been running through a crowd trying to protect people from.. what?
That part was still a little fuzzy in her mind. She remembered grabbing a small girl and phasing with her as a harpoon went whistling past and through what looked like a ghost. Then she remembered seeing the big guy from the line grab a dark haired girl and protect her. He was a mutant, she could see that in the next moment. That had been her downfall, she had phased back in to release the little girl into her mother's waiting arms and turned to see the tall metal man guarding the dark haired girl and had gotten struck when one of those harpoons had passed through a ghost and hit her back. It hadn't gone through, meant only to stun but it had stunned and left her unconscious, phasing in and out now and again, half falling through the bedding at the hospital for a week. She'd been transferred to XMU once they'd figured out where she belonged, that had been.. what, two days ago? At least she was awake now and mostly able to control her phasing, but she still felt ill and weak and lost.