[u]Atticus Fowler and Codi Bailey[/u]

Codi seemed to be pulled into deep thought by Jaska’s statement, and after puzzling for a while, she responded, “Well, we all have animal powers, so in that regard, we are similar,” She said. Her grammar was quite educated, despite the thick southern accent that characterized her voice, “I definitely think that if there was to be a gap between meta-humans, it would be between plant and animal powers, and anything else that didn’t cause you to develop bonds with creatures or their attributes.” The spines of the urchin on her back moved slowly, spreading out with the slow, deliberate movements of a peaceful, resting creature of the deep. She smiled, “Well, at any rate, before we came here, I thought Atticus and I were the only people who wound up like this. At the same time, though, considering we lived in a little town in the middle of nowhere, there was a whole world out there we didn’t take into consideration when we thought that.”

Atticus looked over at her, nodding slightly, before blinking the yellow lenses that now counted as clear eyelids. They came out from the inner part of the eye, instead of the typical up-to-down motion of human eyelids, looking more reptilian or bird-like than anything else. He turned to Jaska, “So, are you a new student, too?” He asked, tilting his head a little to one side. Atticus didn’t like to reveal so much about himself to strangers. Jaska seemed like a nice kid, but even children could be dangerous with information, in the sense that they might tell others.

Codi, now more comfortable now that introductions were out of the way, chimed in, “We arrived here yesterday, but we were just trying to get used to the place before we talked to anyone. Was there something we missed that we should know about?”