[ We find Jack on or in Breakstone Lake! It's a pretty lake, although the shore is too rocky to be a beach, sadly. What he's doing, I'll never know. ] * Jack floats just under the surface of the lake, lying on his back with his hands folded behind his head as he stares at the sky through a thin layer of water. [ Session Start! ] [Jack stares into the sky, and as he does, there's a sudden and bright flash of white light at some point high above it, accompanied by a high-pitched yelp. The light is replaced immediately after *that* with a dark-haired girl who... wastes no time in letting gravity have its fun.] * Jack sits up, his legs and hips still floating just below the surface, and stares for a moment in surprise at the girl above him. "Uh..." * Miya twists in the air, forcing herself into a dive. Jack probably realizes that she's going really fast, rather like someone who's been falling for a while. * Jack tries to find the spot where the girl will most likely hit the surface of the water before ducking under the surface once again. He puts his arms at his sides and swims toward Miya's soon-to-be-landing-point. He swims rather like an otter: arms at his sides, stream of bubbles in his wake, and very, VERY fast. * Miya keeps falling oh no she's gonna hit the water! * Jack sticks his tongue out of his mouth as he swims, and the water directily underneath Miya begins to bubble furiously just a moment before she hits, softening the hard surface of the lake with lots of tiny air bubbles. (steam underwater = bubbles!) (Cool!) * Miya does hit, and she goes under with a reasonably clean splash. Her blank, white eyes open, and she swims up to the surface; no small feat for someone wearing jeans. She gasps. * Jack slows his pace considerably as he draws nearer to Miya. He treads water several meters from her, watching her with furrowed brow. His short, sandy blond hair is nearly brown with water and slick against his scalp. "Hey," he calls out, "you okay?" * Miya looks at Jack, black bangs covering her entire forehead. She spits out some water. "Um. Yeah, I th- I think so." She starts swimming to shore. * Jack swims alongside Miya with a relatively normal breaststroke. Curiously, the water around Miya seems to be flowing in the same direction that she swims, speeding up her progress a bit. How did you get up there? Are you from the school? * Miya lets out a little meep. Seems she does realize it. "Um, yes. I, um... It was kind of an accident." You accidentally appeared in the sky. Cool. * Miya concentrates on swimming, eventually reaching the shore. She pulls herself out and coughs some more water out, then pushes her bangs back. * Jack allows the silence to suggest that whatever she can do on purpose must be very impressive. Well, um... * Jack stays in the water, so that little more than his head is visible above the surface. "You sure you're okay?" * Miya blushes a little. "Yeah. Thanks. Um... you're new here?" * Miya wrings water out of her t-shirt. Seems she knows attempting that with jeans is useless. * Jack smiles cheekily. "Yeah, I've been adjusting. Don't move, okay? I'm gonna go get some clothes." He disappears underwater without waiting for a response from the falling girl. * Miya blinks as Jack vanishes almost as fast as she can. "Okay?" * Jack pokes his head out of the water in approximately the same spot from which he disappeared, a few minutes after his departure. "Sorry about the wait," he apologizes as he raises his arms out of the water and places them onto the lake's surface as easily as he might rest them on solid ground. * Miya tilts her head, regarding him curiously. "Um, it's okay. What happened?" * Jack hauls himself out of the water, and simply stands on it. Jack's skin is deeply tanned, and his body is lean and sleek, like a vaguely wedge-shaped torpedo. He wears nothing but a dark blue bathing suit with electric blue sworls on it. "What happened when?" * Miya blinks a few times. "When you left? You said you were getting some cloth- " She stops herself, then blushes. Furiously. * Miya gets to her feet. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to interrupt." * Jack doesn't seem to notice Miya's blushing. "Oh, that? I went down to the bottom to get my bathing suit. I keep a lot of stuff down there." He walks across the water until he's on the shore beside Miya, though he stays a couple of meters away. "Oh, you didn't interrupt anything," he says cheerfully. "Clothes are just inconvenient underwater." I'm Jack, by the way. What's your name? * Miya looks like she's trying to process that. "Um... Miya." And she bows. "Miya Yoritomi. Nice to meet you." It sounds very stock, probably because it is. * Jack only smiles again. "Thanks," he says, apparently taking her greeting very seriously. "Today was my first day around the grounds," he offers conversationally. "I kept the tour short so I could hang out with anybody who came by." Although his statement doesn't seem to make much sense by itself, Jack doesn't seem intent on elaborating. "Have you been here at the school long?" Um... * Miya looks like she's trying to process that, too. "A while? A month and some." Cool. * Miya blinks, dazed and sopping wet, and not looking as good that way as Jack does. "Yeah." * Jack sits down on the rocky shore and stretches out his legs so that they are underwater from the knees down. He pats the shore beside him, as far away as his arm will reach without actually moving from his seat. "Come on, sit down. Dry off." * Miya eyes that for a moment, then walks over and sits down where indicated. Up close, it's even more obvious how small she is. * Jack just grins at the little girl. "Do you, uh... show up there often?" He points in the direction of the spot where Miya appeared a few minutes ago. Um... * Miya blushes. "Sometimes. When I go too high." She starts talking faster now, and her accent becomes more evident. "I'm getting better at it, but it takes a lot of practice, and I didn't know I could do that all my life or anything." Cause I can't stop myself from falling when I disappear again, so... um. Can't stop yourself... * Jack digests this for a moment. You mean, you disappear and what? Show up somewhere else? * Miya nods. "I teleport." Badass. Cool accent, too. Yoritomi sounds Japanese... are you from there? Or Hawaii or something? * Miya nudges at the gravel with a toe. She fidgets. "Um, no. I'm from Japan." * Jack nods. "Cool. I always wanted to go there, but now I'd have to swim. That would take forever," he sighs. "Where in Japan did you live?" * Miya nudges at the gravel some more. "Um, in the Tottori prefacture. Chugoku region. Just, um. A little town, really." Ain't nothin' wrong with little towns. I bet you've never heard of Savannah. Is that like grass? * Jack laughs. "Yeah, I guess it is. It's also the name of the place I'm from. It's a port city. At least, it was a port city. Now it's mostly a tourist destination." Oh. It's still a port, but not a really busy one. * Miya laughs a little. "It's just, um. Everyone always thinks of Tokyo when you say 'Japan.' I've only been to Tokyo once." Really? I guess that makes sense. Most people think of New York City when you say "America," and I've never been there. * Jack stares out at the lake, as if he can see right through the water. "The world is a really big place, yaknow?" * Miya blinks. "They do?" I always thought of cowboy hats. * Miya thinks. But the Statue of Liberty's in New York, so that works. Oh sure! Either that or--yeah. Texas. * Miya giggles. * Miya picks up a rock and throws it in the lake, watching the ripples. * Jack watches the ripples, too. He sticks his tongue just a tiny bit out of his mouth, so that the tip is just visible between his lips. After a while a rock emerges from the surface of the lake, floating on a sheet of ice. * Miya stares. "Wow." She looks at Jack. "Cool! You're like- um, like Bobby." * Jack blinks. "Whoey?" Bobby. He can do stuff with ice and snow and things. Oh. Well, I can't do a whole lot with it. Water's my thing. I can freeze water, but I can't freeze anything else. I can do this, though. * Miya looks back at the rock. "It's still cool." * Jack looks at the ice with a rock on it, and sticks his tongue out a bit, as before. The ice floats upward a bit, just off the surface of the water, and hovers through the air until it settles on the shore between Jack and Miya. Thanks! * Miya claps. You made the water help me swim, right? * Jack nods. "Yeah. But I couldn't use it to pick up the rock. I'm not that good. The ice worked, though." * Miya smiles nervously. "But it works." She pauses. "I can't run while teleporting. I fall over." Really? Oh, you said you keep moving. I bet that would be confusing... Well, um... And all of me goes. Err, what do you mean? Well, um... * Miya thinks for a moment, then just decides, "I'll show you." She gets to her feet, walks over to the sitting Jack, and steps on his shoulder. Then his head. Oddly enough, his neck doesn't break; she's far lighter than she looks and weighs about as much as a toddler would. Wha--woah... Cool. * Miya looks down. "Yeah, um. See? I can be heavy, too. But I don't lose my balance." She hops off. Wow. I'm glad you didn't get heavy on my head. * Miya giggles. * Jack quirks a little smile at Miya. I wouldn't do that. Maybe you'd turn into a puddle, though. What, from being squished? I couldn't do that on my own, anyway. I love water, but I just live in it and move it around. Oh. * Miya smiles sheepishly. "I guess not that much like Bobby." * Jack returns Miya's smile. "That's a good thing, right? I don't know much about... mutants, but I was under the impression that there weren't two of a kind." Um, I dunno. I just know we can do stuff and... um, and some people don't like us. * Miya frowns a little, but she goes back to her sitting place. The sun's been doing a decent job of drying her off. Yeah. I came here because my parents were losing business because of me. * Miya winces. "That stinks." * Jack nods. "I miss them." He looks down at his hand. The skin on his hand, and arm, and in fact most of his body, is cracked and dry. "Oh, I'm drying out. I guess I was out on that tour longer than I thought." * Miya pokes at the gravel some more. "Yeah. I miss mine, too-" And then she looks up. "Oh. Um, maybe you should go back in?" * Jack crawls back into the water without really getting up; the action makes him look kind of like a crab for a moment. Once he's in the water, he rolls over lazily and looks at Miya with his head just above the surface. "Do you still talk to them?" he asks as if he was not just drying out on the shore. * Miya suddenly seems very, *very* interested in the gravel. "No." Oh. I see. Their loss, right? They don't get their own lake. Uhm, assuming you like lakes. * Miya shrugs. Err. Uncomfortable silence... Sorry I brought that up. It's okay. * Miya takes a shaky breath. "They just don't like me anymore, I guess. But then Remy and Logan found me, so it's okay." Remy and Logan... The coon-ass and Wolverine? Sorry... the guy from Louisiana and Wolverine? * Jack takes his own turn at blushing, now, but it's a passing phenomenon. * Miya looks confused, then nods. "Um, yes." (Hehehe.) Well... I should probably get underwater now. I've got a short day to plan tomorrow. * Jack twists his mouth into a wry grin at that. * Miya blinks. "Huh?" I can only stay out of the water for about eight hours at a time. I have to plan my days out of the water very carefully. Oh. You mean in a row? Can't you get out of water, then go back in? Well, yeah. But I have to have time to soak. Eight hours is about the most I can stay out of the water in a day, on average. * Miya makes a face. That's crummy. Do people visit when you're stuck in the water? I'm still getting used to it. I don't get many visitors yet, no. I haven't been here long enough to meet many people. Oh. But there's one great thing about being in the water so much. * Miya tilts her head. "What?" * Jack grins impishly and tosses his bathing suit onto the shore beside Miya. "No clothes! See you later, Miya! Nice meeting you!" * Jack disappears underwater, and does not resurface. * Miya stares at the bathing suit, blushes *furiously*, and just vanishes in a flicker of light. [End Mini!]