Zinnia awoke to the trumpets blaring and groaned from under the covers of her bed.  This was a long fall from the life she had recently lived, from a position that had once held significant meaning.  Sure, that meaning was lost many years ago when the Ottoman Empire fell, but now it was if she had never existed, on paper at least.
	She got up and shivered a bit, used to the hot climate of where she originated, and made her way to the shower, ditching her pajamas on the way there, and took a fairly quick rinse in the water.  She looked in the large mirror on her way out, and spoke with a light accent to herself.  "Well Zinnia, you can't do much about it now.  Let's just hope no one finds out where you came from..."  She dried off and got dressed in a maroon tank-top, a brown and maroon hoodie, some skinny jeans, and a pair of sleek, black, knee-high boots, and made her way out after feeding Teif, the large lizard that lazed about most of the day.  "Be good, I don't want any stains on the rug when I get back."
	Upon her arrival to the cafeteria, she noticed just about everything at once.  A girl hanging from the top floor talking to another woman who appeared to be a drawing come to life, a morbid-looking man sitting alone and scarfing down a plate of eggs, bacon, and fruit, a fiery red-head that looked like he was expecting someone with a parrot taking the occasional piece of fruit from him, and a black-haired boy that was twirling a fork between his fingers, leaning back in his chair and eyeing a nearby electrical socket.  She went up and looked over the options for food.  Pancakes, bacon, eggs, toast... nothing she was used to eating, nothing nearly spicy enough to satisfy her cravings for the culinary delights of home.  She settled on a dry piece of toast and a glass of orange juice after a fierce internal debate, and headed over to the table with the morbid-looking fellow.  "Is it alright if I sit here, Mister..?"  She began, wondering what the man's name was and why he was here.
[hr]	Jace pushed open the door to the mall, dreading the day already.  The end of it, specifically, with the aforementioned shift at the bar looming over him.  He gradually made his way to the cafeteria and laid claim to the table Artemis usually sat at, munching on some pancakes and a bowl of fruit he had commandeered from the buffet.  "Go ahead n' grab whatever you want, Gallus."
	The parrot tweeted happily and dug through the bowl, looking for his favorite snack; blueberries.  Upon finding one at the bottom of the bowl, he pulled his head out and ate it slowly, savoring the taste.
	The Irishman shook his head and smirked a bit.  [i]That bird's really something,[/i] he thought, and started to look around for Artemis.  She'd be here soon, he knew she usually showed up to eat.  He noticed Zinnia come in and stop in the doorway, a strange girl.  [i]I'll probably have to give her a physical sometime soon, just like all the others.[/i]  He sighed.  A day in his life at it's finest, really.
[hr]	Aaron walked into the cafeteria with a certain swagger that screamed, [i]'I own this place,'[/i] and grabbed a plate, piling it high with sausages, then sat a table away from Jace.  [i]Now to wait for that animal lover to show up, just so I can spite her,[/i] he thought, not even having a fondness for sausage.  Quite frankly, he hated the things, he just wanted to see how much he could piss the girl off for the hell of it.