Getting fresh air (open)

[Shade]

((set before: Classrooms // Hallways // Looking for Mystique))

Shade had walked the way from her dormitory to the grounds, not really having an aim, feeling restless yet somewhat lazy. She had returned from New York just a very short while ago and was itching for some fresh air - and trying to escape the solitude of her room. She passed by some of the students who were lingering around the benches and the lawn on the grounds and walked a little further and towards the lake. There was a slight breeze coming from the water and she took a few deep breaths, closing her eyes and spreading her arms as she walked towards the shore. She let herself drop on the grass and looked out at the calm waves of the lake, her thoughts drifting here and there.

[techbit]

He walked side by side with Autobot, his android he built, around the lake, coming from the opposite direction of a young woman he hadn't met yet. He almost felt like this was possibly an all-girl school, but he shook off the feeling, sure he would meet another guy here soon enough. He smiled wide as he stopped a couple feet from her. "Hello, I'm Damien and a bit new to this place. This is my hand-made friend, Autobot." The droid bowed slightly, speaking in a harmonic yet still creepily robotic voice, "Good day to you."

[Shade]

Shade had been a little lost in her thought, but was not startled when someone adressed her. Looking up, she saw a young man walk towards her, a robot by his side. It wasn´t an everyday thing to see, not even at this place and she couldn´t help but return the broad smile the other one gave her, feeling reminded of Star Wars all of a sudden. "Nice to meet you two." she said. Damien... she tried to sort in the name but failed and was sure she had not met him before. "I´m Shade."

[techbit]

He bowed slightly, "A pleasure, Shade. I hope we're not interrupting..."

[Shade]

Shade leaned back and propped on her elbows, blinking up at the late afternoon sun. "Not at all." she said. She had just been lazing around and feeling a tad lonely, it was good to have someone around and she always liked meeting new people. "Plenty of grass to sit on here. So you´re kind of new? You´re a student?" she asked.

[techbit]

"Eh, I wouldn't say student really...I've gotten all the schooling I need for my life." he smiled, putting his hands in his pockets. "I just need a place to stay...it's kinda hard to get your own house or apartment when your own wonderful government has blackballed you."

[Shade]

Shade crooked a wry smile. Another fugitive, she thought. At least he had made it here. She tried to guess his age but found it difficult. People in their late teens or early twens were always hard to sort in. He might be student age, but she guessed he could as well be around her own age. She remembered when she had been looking for an apartment. It hadn´t been too difficult, but that had been some years ago after her highschool graduation. Times had changed. "This is a good place to stay." she said, stating what she thought a fact more than wanting to sound reassuring. "Where are you from originally?"

[techbit]

He sat down in the grass, turning to Autobot, "Sleep, my friend." and the machine transformed into a black box on wheels with a handle and turned itself off. He looked back to Shade again, "Well, I was born in Madrid, Spain, but I moved over to the states when I just turned one and lived in Washington DC mostly...and yourself?"

[Shade]

Shade watched the robot´s reaction to the command with some interest before turning to Damien again. "I´m from North Carolina." she said. "and I´ve been living there all my life apart from the last year. I came here in September." It had been almost a year, the thought was somewhat bizarre.

[techbit]

He nodded, noticing her reaction to Autobot. "I take it walking machines aren't your everyday occurance here?"

[Shade]

Shade chuckled a little. "No." she said. "you see many things but it seems there´s always something new." She wondered why he would have a robot around. "does he have something to do with your powers?" she asked.

[techbit]

"In fact he does...I happen to able to communicate in some terms with machines. I can fix, make, rebuild, anything of the sort whatever machine you put in front of me."

[Shade]

Shade made an impressed face. A handy power, she thought. Probably he´d have an easy time to get any sort of information as computers probably worked for him like that as well. "Practical." she said. "So if ever I need my mp3 player or laptop fixed, I´ll just ask you then."

[techbit]

He grinned and nodded, "If you'd let me, I'd turn your mp3 player into a laptop and your laptop into a computer so powerful you'll be getting attention from The Pentagon."

[Shade]

Shade snickered, letting herself drop onto her back lazily, her arms behind her neck. "Better not to." she said. "although it sounds like fun."