a very confused Batgirl
Karl Green said:
Red Tornado suddenly stands and says to the students sitting next to him "Excuse me, it seems that another student has arrived, I will go to greet her."
Watching over to the Administration building, he arrives just as Cassandra's limo pulled up.
Cassandra, as she gets out of her car, sees a strange looking man, wearing a business suit, with a bright red head… that looks a little… off. He steps forward and after a moment of hesitation holds out his hand to shake. He says "Good morning Miss Cassandra, my name is the Red Tornado, one of the two headmasters here. Would you like to come with me, the other students have already begun lunch. Nothing formal, but Dick Grayson aka Nghtwing is also there. I will wait for further introductions. You can drop your bags off at the lobby and check out your room later.
"This way then."
She is then lead by Tornado to a three-story brick building, which he calls 'the Residency', where you will be living while attending school and training here on campus. "Your room is semi-private, but we wish to make sure that each student gets to know their fellow students and you do have a roommate. I will introduce you to yours when we get inside. Her name is Starfire and she is an Alien from the planet Tamaran which is located within the 'Aquila Rift' which is near the arm of our Galaxy in which our Sun resides, the Loop I bubble is some hundreds of parsecs from Earth through, and…
"I apologies for my rambling… I tend to share more facts then most people care to listen to…"
Wide eyes stare at the red headed man as Cassandra tries to make out anything he said. She's used to reading people's movements to understand them but this, whatever it is, just seems a bit too strange to read like that.
After a few more seconds of trying to decide what to do she suddenyl remembers a few basic things.
"Hi!"
She smiles happily, seeming very proud that she understood that the man just greeted her and cautiously takes the offered hand.
...make sure...room...inside..., the words just rumble through her head. She guessed she could understand the whole sentence if she tried harder but she's too busy taking in all of her souroundings. Seeing is so much more usefull than words.
...training...
At that word her smile returns and she happily claps the Red Tornado on the shoulder.
Two other words that she can't overhear are Nightwing and Robin. The Batman told her about them and showed her pictures of his previous trainees.
No trainee She thinks, trying to think in words rather than pictures.
Her mind is a tumble of imagined scenes of the Batman training two young men. He never trained her, it wasn't neccesary, but no one knows that he said, and if he likes it like that it is good enough for her.
KarlGreen said:
He then leads Cassandra into the building and she can hear and then see a number of young people sitting around two tables eating lunch, etc. Most look up to see who this 'new student' is, and Nightwing comes over to shake Cassandra's hand also "Your early, glad you could make it. I hope your flight in was good? Now lets introduce you to everyone shall we?"
To which he directs Cassandra into the cafeteria and says "OK people, I know I said she would not be here until Monday but it looks like she made it a couple of days early. Everyone this is Cassandra, aka Batgirl. Cassandra your roommate is Starfire here if you would care to join us at our table here for lunch. Go ahead and get yourself a tray and something to drink. We will get your luggage afterwards, sound good?"
Without hesitating Cassandra takes Nightwings hand. Now this is someone she understands perfectly well. He moves like the Batman, she would have regocnized him and Robin even if no one told her who they are before. For her it is as if they had the same voice, all three of them. Robin reeks of inexperience but even so she can allready see that he will become like the other two.
Again she just manages a shy
"Hi" to everyone she's introduced to but with Robin she tries a little more effort and ads a carefull,
"..nice to meet you..."
KarlGreen said:
Starfire stands up and says "Wonderful. I am so very pleased to meet you. Come and sit with us. This is Tim Drake, he is also called Robin. I am Starfire. My real name cannot be pronounced in your tongue. I this is a wonderful day. We will be wonderful friends yes?"
Normaly understanding new people is a bit hard but Starfire's manner is so outgoing friendly that Cassandra would not even have to listen to understand what she means. She just smiles and gives an affirmative
"Yes".
