Eva smiled as she drank the water. She and rhys were a good team, and she really liked him. Of course she knew about his past, and that he had a wife. She hoped in time his heart would heal and when it did she would be there.

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Where do you go when your running away,
The cost of stopping is too great to pay.
~Amanda (saw this written in a washroom stall at a movie theater)

Jackie felt the attacks stop, like air had been sucked into a void, but she kept the tornado swirling. "It's not simple," she yelled back, absolutely furious as reality sunk in. "You killed those people!" She should die. Murderer, who was she to dictate life? The dancer's anger fed the tornado, speeding it up. But before she could draw the sides together and crush the renegade mutant, her knees gave way and the ground rushed up at her, smacking her on the head. She lay there, out cold on the pavement, alone and vulnerable.

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"Hey Hayden!" Brody said as he followed Asha into the building, then grinned at his own pun. "Do you know where Cassandra is?"

Marsia was now really tired. She left the training room whose floor was now covered with stuffing from the dummies. Just for fun, she thought as she glanced at the open window. She ran towards it and jumped through it. After performing a couple of flips, she landed softly on the sidewalk. She looked around her and noted that she wasn't far from the front door. She went towards it and found Brody. She greeted him.

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"Hello." she responded back as she studied the group with her brown eyes. "I suppose I am in the right place?" she asked, voicing a question she already knew the answer to. But as if to prove a point, she formed a light-energy ball in her free hand, suspending the yellow energy in the air.

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"Hi Marsia," Brody turned to her as she came through the door, then turned back to Hayden. "Cassandra Jensen. One of the teachers." <i>He's new here.</i> Brody remembered. He probably hadn't met many of the other mutants yet. "This is Asha- she's been looking for HYENA, and I was gonna have her talk to Cassandra since I saw Raye leave."

Mai looked around her, their company of three was now a company of five and neither of the new mutants seemed like the chattiest of people. Catrin seemed on her guard, and avoided contact with any of them but especially Tai. Mai presumed this was something to do with Tai's psychic abilities. The other did seem a little more talkative, as she lit a light-energy ball in her palm to check she was among the right people. Mai thought silently to herself that Catrin's wings were evidence enough.

"So, now we have two more among us, what are our plans? Are we going on to find more, or are we going to take these two the mansion - if you want to go to the mansion that is....?" She said, looking from Tai and Raye, and then to Catrin and the unnamed girl.

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"Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come."

Fwee!

Raye grabbed his cellphone from the front pocket of his bag and dialed a number he had obviously got used to dialling. One ring... two rings... three rings... he wasn't answering... there was a fourth ring and just before Raye was going switch off his phone, he heard the tone of the phone signaling that it had been picked up.

"Who's spe-", Takeshi began to ask.
"It's Raye. Can you use the satellite tracker to trace where I am right now? There's one or two mutants I need you to pick up."
Takeshi paused, as if this was something he'd much rather not do.
"Can't I do it later?", Takeshi moaned.
"NOW!", Raye snapped hastily.
"Fine. See you there," Takeshi muttered and hanged up without another word.

Raye turned to an angle so he was roughly facing both of the mutants he had just encountered, "Would either of you like to go to HYENA right now? Or come with us...", he turned to Tai, "That is - if we're carrying on this 'mission'."
He tucked his cellphone back into the pocket and hung the bag strap around his shoulders opposed to how he usually just carried it with his hand by the handle.

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"What exactly is HYENA?" Catrin asked, curious of this place he spoke of. She wanted to be safe, but if HYENA was a trap or somewhere she couldn't get away from, she obviously didn't want to go there. She'd heard of places where they did things to mutants, but surely mutants wouldn't do it to other mutants, would they? She started feeling a little panicked and wondered if she should have shown herself at all. Not far from her, a shallow puddle glazed over, patterned by the ice she'd accidentally created.

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"Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come."

Fwee!

"HYENA is an institute... it has several parts to it. Classrooms to keep up with education, training rooms, dormentries, etc. Have you ever seen that mansion further down London, just down that main road?", Raye asked, pointing towards one of the distant roads.

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Catrin shook her head, "I keep away from most places, especially large buildings, it seems unwise for someone who looks as I do." She said, her wings beating gently, subconsciously. "I'll go though, it'll be better that where I currently live."

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"Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come."

Fwee!

Raye nodded, understanding her cause.
"My friend and associate should be here soon - so he can take you there. Hopefully he'll show you around - if not, tell him that Raye asked him to."

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Catrin nodded, "Ok then."


Mai looked to Tai, "What're we going to do? Carry on to find others?" They still didn't know what the other girl wanted to do, but Mai presumed she'd go with Catrin. If she didn't though, they'd just have another person to help them to recruit, which couldn't be a bad thing.

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"Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come."

Fwee!

Takeshi parked the Toyota Auris in the nearest car park to where he had traced Raye and the others, absent mindedly parking the car in a careless manner. He paced towards the park and strolled through the evergreen as he searched for them.

He spotted Raye along with four others, recognizing Mai and Tai, and made his way forward.

"So these pretty ladies must be the new additions!", Takeshi exclaimed with a sly grin, not at all startled by one of the mutant's pair of flapping wings.

"So - who's coming with me now?", he carried on as Raye gave him a look which immediately read DON'T.

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Estelle nearly gasped when she heard these mutants were from HYENA. Finally some luck. she thought to herself. "I will go with you." she said turning to the group. "Do you have room where I can put my things, if not, I will go to the mansion and try to find the rest of you later. By the way, I am Estelle Knight." she added as an afterthought.

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