Aer & Incendia

[Jacinda Blake]

It was still dark outside. Actually it was sort of grey, with a hint of orange threatening to appear at any moment. There was a chill in the air and it was slightly windy.

Wonderful..

Jacinda sighed and glanced at the red glowing numbers on her alarm clock. It wasn't even time to get up yet but she'd been up for over an hour. She simply wasn't sleepy. She was used to getting up early to work as a teacher's aide at school before classes started. But that had been her other school. She wasn't Jacina Blake, the straight "A" Prom Queen anymore.. Today she was starting mutant school.

She tip-toed out of the room, trying to not wake her room mates who were all still asleep. She hadn't even had the chance to meet them, as she had arrived late in the night. That was Jacinda all right, last one to bed and the first one up.. She crept into the girls bathroom and quickly brushed her hair and teeth, checked her bookbag (which she was't even certain she would need) for her makeup compact and dabbed a touch on, along with some gloss. Dressed in a pair of jeans, boots and a black sweater she was as good as she was getting for this hour of the day. She tied her hair back in a pony-tail and decided to go in search of breakfast.