1x1 - Sarah/C.B.

[Sarah]

Jenna cast another glance at Tarelle, this one considerably more cautious. Definitely someone to watch very closely and hope I don't have to deal with. "Lovely." Though she made an effort to sound dry and sarcastic as usual, behind it she sounded a bit sick.

[C.B.]

Lark waved a hand in the air. "Tucker will only give her a roommate if he thinks both she and the other person can handle it. I'm just worried about who he'll stick Cade with."

[Sarah]

"Hmm." Jenna glanced around the room. "Any predictions?"

[C.B.]

"Probably Conrad," Lark guessed. "Dustin's too naïve, and he hasn't had much time to observe Simon. That's just a guess."

[Sarah]

"Hmm." Jenna considered what that would mean- yes, it was probably better that Simon wouldn't be rooming with one of the more dangerous ones. If it came to needing to make an escape, Dustin probably wouldn't be hard to escape from. "Well, you'd know better than me. How long've you been here anyway?"

[C.B.]

Lark shrugged. "Just a couple days. Cade's been here the longest, I think a couple months. Tarelle got here a day or two before me, and Dustin the same day as me. Everybody else has come since."

[Sarah]

"Ah." Jenna expected Lark to have been here longer than a few days- closer to a week or more.

[C.B.]

"Did you know Tarelle hates chocolate?" Lark asked. "It's weird!"

Addy rolled her eyes and turned to Jenna. "Did you know that Lark drinks nothing but water and doesn't eat candy?"

[Sarah]

Jenna raised her eyebrows again. "Did you know that not everyone actually likes sweet things in general?"

[C.B.]

Lark shrugged. "I don't like sweet things, but I've never met someone other than Tarelle who doesn't like chocolate. And I can't have candy, or drinks other than water."

[Sarah]

"I don't-" Jenna paused. "Scratch that. Chocolate is fine if it's combined with something salty. Anyway. Can't have them? Because of your powers?"

[C.B.]

Lark nodded. "It takes water to make water." She grinned. "Hey, that sounded cool. Anyway, sugar tends to clog up my system, which drains my energy instead of giving me a sugar high or whatever."

[Sarah]

"Huh. Interesting." Jenna wouldn't have expected that, but it did make sense. "So does anything with a lot of sugar affect you?"

[C.B.]

"Mostly. Some things are okay. I can have things that have sugar, but have more other stuff in them, I just have to watch the amount," Lark said. "Do you have any problems like that?"

[Sarah]

"There's no foods or drinks that directly affect my powers, no." Jenna shrugged.

[C.B.]

Lark shook her head. "Nah, I mean like, anything. Can you not go out when there's a full moon? Do you have to do five jumping jacks every morning? Stuff like that."

[Sarah]

Jenna shook her head. "Nope. Nothing in particular- at least not that I know of." It was possible there was some weakness she didn't know about because she hadn't encountered it- in fact, she'd be surprised if there wasn't. It seemed like the kind of thing the sicentists at the compound would've built in to her powers if they could. "Obviously my powers don't work as well if I'm not feeling well- telepathy especially- but that's about it."

[C.B.]

Lark nodded. "Makes sense. What's your favorite part about your powers?"

[Sarah]

"Eh . . . I don't know." Jenna shrugged. "Maybe the fact that they're so easy to surprise people with . . . though never needing a stool or a boost to get something high up is pretty useful too."

[C.B.]

Lark grinned. "Yeah, that's nice." She wrinkled her nose in Cade's direction. "Some people use their powers for the craziest things. You have no idea how many times I've been walking down the hall and a soda can has flown past me."

[Sarah]

Jenna smirked at the thought. "How long a range does he have on his powers, d'you know?"

[C.B.]

Lark shrugged. "I dunno. It's pretty big, though. I lost my necklace in the woods while hiking with Tucker, and Cade brought it back, from here."

[Sarah]

"Impressive." Jenna's gaze wandered over to Cade with new respect. Her own telepathy range was usually limited to what she could see- though she had lifted things behind her before; she just had to know where they were.

[C.B.]

Lark nodded. "I'd ask him, but I'm afraid he'd, like, attract a plane out of the sky or something. Or pull something from China."

[Sarah]

"I don't know, that could be interesting to see," Jenna said drily. "The China one, at least."

[C.B.]

Lark laughed. "Probably. If I wanted to collect foreign Coke cans, he might be a big help." Cade held up his hand, not taking his eyes off his book, and a soda can flew from the table into his hand. The top popped itself open, and he took a sip. Lark rolled her eyes. "He's so lazy."

[Sarah]

((So I totally missed this.))

"I don't know. If I had his power, I might do the same thing." Jenna smirked. "Or I might just use it to shoot the can tabs at Simon. Or both."

[C.B.]

Lark grinned. "I'd do something useful, like mow the lawn. Without touching the lawn mower, of course."

[Sarah]

"Good idea." Jenna thought for a moment. "I wonder if you could use it to stop bullets- or, avoid them, anyway. You know, if you made the bullet swerve around you or something."

[C.B.]

Lark shrugged. "I'm sure that would work. It's probably super easy. I guess it's good if you need to erase a computer's hard drive or something. Magnets do that, right?"

[Sarah]

Jenna shrugged. "I don't know. It sounds right, but tech stuff has never been my thing. Simon's better with it."

[C.B.]

"I don't know if it's because of his powers or just something he's good at, but Cade is amazing with computers." Lark rolled her eyes. "He's hacked into the government several times to get info for Tucker, and to, uh, permanently remove some info, too."

[Sarah]

"Good for him." Jenna leaned back in her chair. She would've been leaning the chair up on two legs as well, had she been able. "Simon's not that good, but he's good enough to keep us out of trouble." Admittedly, keeping them out of trouble meant shorting out security cameras more often than hacking things, but whatever.

[C.B.]

Lark grinned. "That's good, I guess. I thought you guys were always in trouble, though."

[Sarah]

"Define trouble." Jenna shrugged. "If by trouble you mean "probably not a good idea to draw attention to ourselves" then yes. If you mean trouble as in "people actively chasing us and are right behind us and if we don't get out of here we're going to get killed or worse", no. Sometimes we were just . . . hiding. Make sense?"

[C.B.]

Lark nodded. "Yeah. I was always just paranoid."

[Sarah]

Lark. Paranoid. The two, from what Jenna had seen, did not seem to fit together. "Ah."

Footsteps came from behind them, and Jenna turned around to see Simon come up and lean on the back of her chair. "What are you two talking about?"

[C.B.]

Lark waved a hand in the air. "Tons of stuff. We'd be open to a new topic, though."

[Sarah]

Jenna poked Simon's arm, which had slid forward (possibly on purpose) so it rested on her head. "Get off me. And Simon's good at coming up with random topics."

Simon moved his arm back to the top of the chair. "Hmm . . . desserts. No, wait, Lark doesn't eat sweets, or so I've heard. Or is that just candy that you don't eat?"

[C.B.]

"Just candy and super sugary deserts," Lark said. "As long as it's less than fifty percent sugar, I can have it." She grinned. "But I do not eat cheesecake." She made a gagging noise.

[Sarah]

"Cheesecake is overrated." Simon grinned down at his sister. "Right, Jenna?"

Jenna rolled her eyes. "Shut up. I'm not saying it's made in heaven or anything, but it's good."

"Pecan pie's the best dessert." Simon glanced at Lark. "I know that's pretty sugary, though- can you have it?"

[C.B.]

Lark frowned. "I don't know. I've never tried it before."

[Sarah]

"Seriously?" Simon shook his head. "That's sad."

Jenna rolled her eyes. "She probably didn't spend a lot of time in the south either. Pecan pies aren't really a thing in the north, if you haven't noticed." She glanced at Lark. "Did you?"

[C.B.]

Lark shrugged. "Not really. I haven't done much traveling."

[Sarah]

((Out of curiosity, where is Tucker's home located?))

"That's what I thought." Jenna rolled her eyes at Simon again. "See?"

Simon ignored his sister's comment and grinned at Lark. "So what do you like?"

[C.B.]

((Some remote place, not exactly sure where. In a forest, and close to a coast. That's about all we've got so far.))

"Desert?" Lark asked. "Definitely ice cream and froyo."

[Sarah]

((Ah. Ok. I'd pictured it as being close to the mountains as well, for the record.))
((Also, only on for a few minutes before I go on a walk.))

"Mm. Can't go wrong with those, I'll give you that," Simon said. Jenna nodded approvingly.

[C.B.]

((We can do that, too.))

Lark smiled. "Nope. Which do you two prefer, ice cream or froyo?"

[Kaitlyn]

((Just a comment, if you want somewhere on the coast, somewhat near mountains and forests, I'd say some parts of California. I've been there before and there's some cool places. Not just LA and Disneyland.))

[C.B.]

((Or Scandinavia. :P))