Alfie had not been at breakfast.
In fact, after being threatened by some doof in shining armor and seeing how strange Hunter had acted Alfie had decided to make herself scarce in the wake of all the new arrivals. It wasn't that she was unsociable. Mr. Grey from the old orphanage had done his best to make her comfortable there, talk to people, make friends. Orphans usually had problems, some would see a hand reaching out to them and their first instinct would be to slap it away or bite it off. She'd had those problems herself.
The problem was that biting or slapping was the worst a regular orphan could do.
Here they could set you on fire.
And the worst of that sort of thing was always when they first arrived. Normally she'd just avoid a single person while they got settled in, watched them to make sure that they weren't any danger. But there were so many now. That wasn't going to work this time, and it wasn't like she could keep hiding in her room. She'd have to watch them and decide who was safe to be around all as a group.
As she walked carefully down the hall toward the gym, hearing the tale-tell signs of drama and conflict she was so eager to avoid, she froze. There was someone she actually knew peeking inside. Kyo, the boy she didn't like because he did weird dream stuff. She gotten caught up in the weird dream stuff stuff once by accident and had avoided him like the plague from that moment on. She didn't know what he was looking at, but he obviouly didn't see the ice that was crawling up his legs.
There was a moments hesitation before she remembered what the cold could do to a person, then she started running. She leaped over the ice that was now creeping down the hall, praying that so long as she didn't touch the edge her legs would begin to freeze. Landing a skid she fell forward and reached out to grab his arm, arresting her fall just enough to get her feet unsteady back under her.
Well, that was one way to get someone attention.
"Hey. Hey!" She said urgently. "Your legs are icing up. You have to move! Look down!"