New Generation Legacy, Issue 1: Back to School

"Hi, I'm Trillian Anne Gardener, most folks call me 'Trilly' and the guys at Duke Medical Center called me 'Reach' cause of my powers." Trilly offers the two women her hand with a smile. "And nice to meet you, Jun Min and Layla. Layla.. I've got a question do you think in english with my accent or do I just hear you in the language I am used to?"

She couldn't help it, the folks at Duke had gotten her about as interested in Elites as they had been when she agreed to let them study her.
 

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"My bet is that the surfer boy goes commando." Clover commented when Yoshi got himself flustered talking about tighty whiteys and wacky blackies. After the speedy boy runs away, she turns to Kiyana, and catches the look on James' face, What am chopped liver? she wonders amusedly at the boys speechlesssness in the prescence of the other red head, though the other girl really was very beautiful, and the accent was really sexy, like the accents in the James Bond movies.

"Hello Kiyana, I'm Clover Hughes, it is nice to meet you." Clover says, and then proceeds to punch James in the arm to shake him out of his mental undressing if Kiyana. "Down boy. Should be careful though, or you'll make the girls you don't stare at feel like total bowsers." she say playfully to the mesmerized boy.

"I'm not so sure that he is a jerk, more like he never grew up. Maybe there is a saying like this in Russia? Boys don't grow up, they just get bigger?"

"It could also be a sidde-effect of his powers. He might be able to control his speed, but not the effects that living so fast have on him. If he thinks twice as fast as the rest of us, it means temptations to do things to fill the time are twice as strong since he has all the extra time to think about them. It's robably much worse since he moves so fast he is a blur, his thoughts are probably that fast too. Or he just moves so fast that his body is doing things before he can think his way through them."
 

Clover and Jerry:

Kiyana purses her lips. "Maybe this is so. He speaks to me when I arrive. My English, not so good, this I know. He tells me to say 'moose and squirrel' and laughs. This I do not understand, but he is making the fun, yes?"

James turns a slight shade of scarlet at Clover's remarks. "Um...well, yeah. Uh, right, James. I'm James. Pleased to meet you." he tells Kiyana with an awkward smile.

Emmet and Cody:

"As your friend deduced by my nametag, I'm Emmet," he says, smiling uncomfortably as he takes a short step away from Raph. "I'm going to presume that you two knew each other before coming here. Assuming a relatively even distribution of Elite breakouts by geography, the probability that two young Elites would know each other before their respective breakouts is remote. You two really beat the odds."

"Huh?" Raph looks at Emmet quizzically. "Oh...no, I'm not really like you guys...huh, or maybe I am. I dunno. I'm here to watch out for my bud, here, right, Cody?" she says, leaning an arm on his shoulder with a playful punch in the shoulder.

"I'm from California. How about you two? My Elite ability is hypercognition, which as I was explaining to Majit here, is essentially a word I made up to explain that I think very, very quickly. It's not as impressive as flying around or shooting lightning from your eyes, but it comes in handy...I learned Spanish in about five minutes from a LATV sitcom."

"Cody's from New York. I like New York. Lots of people," Raph replies. She thinks a moment. "Not the friendliest people though. I greet them as I pass them on the street and they don't say hi back. In fact, sometimes they say other things." She shrugs.

Manjit almost manages a smile in response to Raph.
 
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"If he was trying to make fun of you I don't really see what was all that funny. I'm British, so I find a lot of Yankee...er American humor strange, but that is just strange. How well you speak a language is all relative anyway. To me, Yoshi's english is absolutely brutal, and I'm sure its the same on his side. This is a UN facility and there are people from all over the world here. With hundreds or thousands of languages and dialects out there its a wonder we can talk at all luv."

"Naw, don't worry about it, English is my native language, and all my English professors at my old school said I was absolutely horrible at it. My German is no great shakes either, though my French is pretty good."
Clover saays, trying to reassure Kiyana. She shifts to speaking what some might recognize as german and then french. "Sprichst du Deutsch, oder tu parles francais?"

[sblock="French or German speakers"] "Do you speak German (French)?"[/sblock]

"Don't worry about Yoshi though, if he gives you any problems, tell me, and I'll set him straight for you."
 

Trilly:

"Hi, I'm Trillian Anne Gardener, most folks call me 'Trilly' and the guys at Duke Medical Center called me 'Reach' cause of my powers." Trilly offers the two women her hand with a smile. "And nice to meet you, Jun Min and Layla. Layla.. I've got a question do you think in english with my accent or do I just hear you in the language I am used to?"

"The latter," Layla 'says'. "I'm Egyptian, my English is practically non-exsistant. My telepathy is translated as you receive it."

"Useful, but unusual, I think," Jun Min adds. "I'm telepathic as well, but I can't do that."

"Buuut, you can understand what we say? How's that work?" Stacy asks.

Layla gives Jun Min a slight look of trepidation, but Jun Min just nods expectantly. "Actually, I don't listen to what you say, I need to read your surface thoughts, which translate back to Egyptian for me...it's only your surface thoughts, and only when you're speaking to me..."

Stacy steps back with a frown. "What? You're reading my mind?"
 
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"Don't worry about Yoshi though, if he gives you any problems, tell me, and I'll set him straight for you."[/COLOR]

Nobility and not stuck up. Looks out for others. Be a good mate to have around. Mum'd like her. Jerry liked them both, but he hoped he wasn't caught between them if Cloves went off on a tear, even if she'd probably be in the right of it.

"I speak a bit of Chinese myself, but it's pretty bad."
 

"我的中国人也是坏的" Clover says in Chinese, though its halting and not nearly so fluent and natural as her French. "Perhaps we can learn it together if its offered. That was about all I know of it, and thats just the simplified version that the immigrants in Britain speak. I was looking into courses in Arabic, and I'd just started taking my Latin courses before I transferred to here. The Chinese was just a bit of a lark with some of my mates who'd immigrated, although I think Kenji was slipping a bit of Japanese in it too from some of the vowel sounds."

"I was wanting to join up with the UN or the British Armed Forces after I graduated, and being able to speak other languages is a major selling point. Most of it isn't actually intended though. On holdiay me and my sister used to go to Belgium or France or wherever it was dad was stationed and stay with him so we both picked up a lot of languages from immersion growing up."
 

"Perhaps we can learn it together if its offered. That was about all I know of it, and thats just the simplified version that the immigrants in Britain speak. I was looking into courses in Arabic, and I'd just started taking my Latin courses before I transferred to here. The Chinese was just a bit of a lark with some of my mates who'd immigrated, although I think Kenji was slipping a bit of Japanese in it too from some of the vowel sounds."


"Sounds like a plan to me. I've had two years' schooling and lots of immersion experience with a Chinese youth group back in Oz, but I still get my tones wrong half the time and I'm barely half-literate."
 

"Sounds like a plan to me. I've had two years' schooling and lots of immersion experience with a Chinese youth group back in Oz, but I still get my tones wrong half the time and I'm barely half-literate."

"Well you've totally got me beat, I can't read chinese even slightly, and that sentence used up the majority of what I know of the language." Clover said cheerfully. "So, what do you guys all think of the uniforms? I mean the blue and white are the UN colors so not much of a chance to escape that, but how about the rest?"
 

Trilly:



"The latter,"

Stacy steps back with a frown. "What? You're reading my mind?"

"I think it's more like she's listening to the surface thoughts, you know the stuff you have to do to think?" She looks to Jun Min. "I think that is what I read in some elite fan magazine." She says with a wry grin. She read a lot, but she wasn't so up on the full mechanics of telepathy.

It was a good line to distract Stacy anyway.
 

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