Coins in a Fountain

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It was a reasonably nice day out, so Lorna decided to take a walk around the grounds. She was hoped a walk would help clear the dark cloud of thoughts that seem to be crowded her head. After she had circled the main building twice she came to the conclusion no amount of walking was going to clear her head.

After the rather long stroll she settled down by the fountain in the courtyard. Her eyes went to the sky, it was so clear and blue it almost seemed like an oil painting. Part of her wonder if this weather was how it naturally how the day was to be or did the new headmistress changed to suit her mood or need for today.

She just shrugged to herself not really wanting to give the weather anymore thought.

Her eyes drifted to the water in the fountain. She noticed like most fountains the bottom was littered with shiny silver and cooper coins. A slight smirk appeared on her lips as she shook her head For the life of her, she could never figure out how could someone be so naïve or stupid and believed they threw a coin into some water that they would have good luck or have their wish come true.

Life just was never that easy or at least hers wasn’t.

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(Oooh, if only Echo was still a mutant. A wishing well. Perfect)

Sy's first impression of Mount Olympus had been deflated quickly by the reality of Xavier's Mansion. He'd just had another talk with one of the head honchos here, who assured him that they were not gods, but mutants, and that if he wanted to stay he would have to learn to play nice.

Mutant. What an ugly word. Sy wasn't a mutant - he was something better than a genetic freak who could do magic tricks. He was a god. He didn't care what those other freaks said. Let them be mutants if they wanted to.

Walking out of the back doors to the tiled porch and grass beyond, Sy could hear the distinct sound of water (a sound he missed terribly in this dreary forested New York estate), and without thought made a bee-line towards its source. It proved to be no more than a fountain (what had he been expecting, an ocean?) but it was peaceful nonetheless, and there was a cute girl with green hair sitting on the other side.

Thinking perhaps she suffered from the same affliction (no! Don't use their words!), rather, was blessed with the same godliness, he gave a pre-emptive tug on his sleeves and made his way over to her. She was smirking as he rounded the corner and he tried to smile in return.

"I like your hair."

Well, growing up alone in the jungle with people who didn't speak english never boded well for social skills.

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Lorna looked up from the water as she ran her finger over the surface of the water. She was slightly surprise about the comment, most of the time it was accomplice to a lot more sarcasm. Her green eyes narrowed slightly as she looked up at him. She studied him from head to toe, for a moment, as she tried to figure out if it was a joke or not.

From appearance, the way he stood and his expression, he didn’t seem to be holding any maliciousness, which once again caught her a bit off guard. She frown creased the corner of her mouth, not knowing what to think.

“Thanks, it is natural.” She said softly pinning her hair behind her ear.

She shook her head trying to shake away her slight awkwardness and then looked back to him. “Nice…” She mentally searched for a polite response but her mind went blank and said the first thing that popped into her head. “Baldness…”

“Very shiny and bald.” She added with a nod.

Lorna fought back a visible wince when she heard her own lameness. ‘No wonder you always alone, you are such a dork!’ She mentally reprimanded herself as she blew a stray green curl from her eyes.

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The grin only expanded at her lack of socalization skills as well. "Thank you, I work very hard at keeping it this way," he said as he ran a hand over the smooth surface of his head. He paused in akwardness, not sure how to continue their so-far pleasant conversation. He finally decided that perhaps his name would do. "I'm Sy, short for Poseidon. My hair is green too."

Well, it sounded a little stupid to him, but at least it was a start. He would have added that he was the newest god on the grounds, but didn't want to be told *again* that he was not a god at all, but a mutant freak. Then again, maybe this one believed that she was a goddess as well.

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OOC: Sorry for delay in post. Spent yesterday with boyfriend.

Tilted her head to the side Lorna gave him a mock pout when he told her his hair was also green. “It is? Here I thought I was special.” She then gave him a slight smile to show she was joked.

“Lorna Dane.” Lorna said with a nod as she held out her hand above the surface of water caused the coins in the fountain to fly about. “I control metal and magnetic waves… Stuff like that.”

She let the coins drop back into the water, much as she didn’t believe a coin in a fountain wouldn’t make a wish come true she couldn’t bring herself to take any of the coins that held others wish on them. Her eyes travel up and down him again as she shifted a bit in her seat.

She figured by is name his powers were probably like Aquaman from the old Superfriends cartoon. As much as she was curious about his powers and was unsure if it was polite to just out right ask. But she figured it couldn’t be too rude if she asked after she revealed owns her powers.

“With a name like Poseidon I guess your powers have to do with water, sea life or something like that. Right?”

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"It is special," he replied, clearly confused. "You are the only other person I know with green hair." He wanted to reach out and touch one of the soft waves around her face, but even Sy knew that it probably wouldn't go over well with a stranger, especially a stranger who was making pennies fly around just above the fountain.

"That is amazing!" He watched as she let them all fall back in and followed the ripples to the other side of the shallow pool with his eyes. "Si, I've got a bit of sea life in me, I guess you could say." He held out a hand, fingers spread wide and quite a ways back from her and watched her face for any reaction as the sweat built up on it, before it dripped to the ground and sizzled a small, black hole in the concrete surrounding the fountain. He shook the rest off quickly, little sizzling black spots showing up below his hand on the ground, then dunked it in the fountain for good measure. "It's from fire coral and anemones," he said quite proudly, "it will burn through most substances."

He rolled up his sleeve a short way, revealing the green "hair" beneath it on his wrist and forearm, "and nematocysts, like a jellyfish. That's why I shave my head bald." He ran his hand over his head again, because he liked the feel of the smoothness that he knew could otherwise poison a person. With a smirk of pride on his face, he nodded to her, "so you are right in your assumptions. Although I can only manipulate the sweat enzyme - I have no control over the nematocysts... or water for that matter."

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Lorna chuckled slight as Sy commented on her hair again and shook her head. “I was kidding. It was a joke, I admit a bad joke but one none a less” She smiled slightly. “Pardon, my sarcasm sometimes it comes out on it’s own.”

A surge of pride went through her when Sy watched her powers with amazement. She had thought since she had became aware of her powers that they were cool, but it was nice to know she wasn’t the only one that thought so. Then it was her turn to be amazed when he displayed his powers, which also turned into a mini Marine Biology lesson, but less boring.

“That is amazing!” She exclaimed once she got over her amazement and grinned widely. “Much better than Aquaman, he can only talk to fish and water life. Which by my beliefs is like the lamest power a person can have.”

Lorna blushed slightly realized how lame it sounded comparing him to a loser character in a cartoon. Her shoulders deflated in defeat, she felt like a dork.

“Forgive me for being lame, I don’t get out enough it would seem.”

She lifted her shoulder slightly as she tried to shrug it off and gave him a little smirk as she felt the need to correct herself, for back home she got out a lot. She didn’t become a total loser till she came to the school. “Well at least lately.”

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Smiling at her enthusiastic reply to his show of power, Sy thought that perhaps not all of the "mutants" at this mansion would prove worthless, self-depreciating freaks. She was obviously proud of her own powers as well.

"Oh, I can talk to fish and water life," Sy assured her seriously, before breaking out into a grin, "but they never do talk back." He had a feel that if he met this Aquaman fellow, he would also find the man lame. But he did not find her lame in the least.

Rolling his shirt sleeve back down, he smiled at her, "you are not lame." Actually, he didn't know what the term meant, other than it was obviously derogatory. "You are a goddess. Don't let these people tell you differently. Only gods and goddesses could do the things we do."

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“Maybe you aren’t talking loud enough, most fish are hard of hearing.“ Lorna laughed and shook her head. She was beginning to like Sy. He was nice to her, he made her laugh and didn’t seemed annoyed by her just being there like most people that had to spend anytime with her. The more paranoid part of her mind wondered if something was up, that it must be some sort of trick that he was too good to be true. She didn’t want to think about that at the moment, she was having a good time and wanted to enjoy it.

She cocked her head to the side as he said she wasn’t lame and begin to talk about goddesses and gods. At this point of Lorna’s life she had wondered if they was even a god and there was no way she thought herself as one. She was way too flawed to be a goddess or any other sort of heavenly deity.

Gods were suppose to be these intelligent, beautiful perfect being. Least in her own mind that what gods are, but if you went by the Greek or Roman definition, a powerful being who likes to get drunk and torture the powerless while keeping ’things’ in the family. Neither definition matched up with her in her own mind.

She didn’t want to argue with Sy over being a god, he seemed to believe it and who was she to dash his beliefs. Though she thought it must be nice to believe in something so whole-heartedly.

“You must not be from around here.” She said for a change and chosen her words carefully; she did not want to loose the friend she was about to make. “Not a lot of people around here believe in anything at all, much less gods and goddesses.”

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"Oh, no, I'm not. I've lived in Costa Rica." He wasn't actually from Costa Rica, although he was probably tan enough to appear so. It had certainly been different from this place, and he was well-inclined to return now that he realized these other gods and goddesses did not think themselves worth it. No one praised him here - no one treated him as if he were better (which he obviously was, in his opinion). It would be nice to get back to a primitive tribe who saw his powers as devine.

Shrugging, he moved to sit next to her at the fountain, careful not to sit too close. "Most people around here are uptight," he said seriously, "and do not believe in themselves further than they can jump." He almost finished it up with 'if they did they wouldn't be here', but he was here and he certainly believed in himself.

"I don't believe a belief in God is necessary, so long as you believe in yourself. Make yourself your highest belief."

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(Going to close this thread and take Sy somewhere else. Feel free to meet him elsewhere whenever your life becomes less hectic.)