"Yes this is the right place"

Adi turned at the sudden sound. The boy in the seat next door had put down the book and was looking at her, quizzically. He'd spoken, right?

"...That is assuming you are an Evangelion pilot?"

Yep, it had been him. The mouth had moved and everything. Funny, his voice was deeper then she was expecting, She nodded, in response to his question. That was her title now, was it? Pilot? She'd only ridden in the thing once, in India. All the kids had lined up in their Kacheras and taken a swim inside that dark tunnel of a place. When she'd tried it, the building had shook and they'd taken her out of there sharpish. That had been the day everything started changing, and it'd lead her up here. She nodded. It seemed easier then denying it.

"And if that is the case all we have to do is wait I'm afraid, apparently we have to wait for the others."

Almost on cue, a door opened, revealing one of these so-called Others. Another boy, another white caucasian. She was starting to sense a pattern. He didn't seem to talk much, or acknowledge anyone else in the room beyond a casual greeting, seeming content to slouch in a corner.

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"HEY!"

She felt the sudden weight of someone's vice-like grip behind her, and instictively scrabbled at the foreign hands grabbing at her neck. Growing up in a home made you ware of contact. At best it was the welcoming arms of Mama Vandan, but at worse it was some little snot-nosed untouchable trying to get something. She wriggled out of the grip, and turned around into the cutest little face ever seen on this side of the planet. It was cuteness no massive it could've collapsed in on itself and become a moe black hole. It almost made Adi mad she'd screamed at her, disrupting the silence that had predominated since she and... Joshua, wasn't it? Joshua had had a short little conversation introducing each other.

The girl had yelled something, but Adi hadn't caught in the confusion. Had it been Japanese? English? Whatever language dogs spoke? She struck out with English, which was always reliable ever since most of China had sunk beneath the waves 15 years back.

"Woah there, girl. You really ought to warn someone before jumping at them like that..."