[h2][color=6ecff6]Erica Lankford[/color][/h2]
[color=6ecff6][i]Another one. How much longer will we be waiting here?[/i][/color] Erica had been waiting at the side of this road for what felt like hours now, and quite a group had formed since she had first gotten here. It was easy to tell that they were all mutants by the way they all glanced around nervously at each other, but that wasn't the most interesting thing that Erica had noticed about the group.

The most interesting thing to her, was that there were people there who were from other countries. Sure, Erica had been out of the states, but only to Canada, which really wasn't that different at all. She had never really met anyone from Europe or anywhere like that before, and she hadn't thought that there'd be anyone from out of the states attending this institute, although looking back on it now it made sense that there would.

The newcomer got out of the car and had a few words with the driver before walking over to join the group, startled once when he saw one of the stranger looking members. Erica stifled a laugh as she watched the emotion on his face. He was obvously foreign, she could tell from how he walked and was dressed, and for a split second Erica thought she should go over and introduce herself, as she had thought for almost every interesting person to arrive since she had got here herself.

As Erica watched the newcomer, she noticed that he seemed agitated by something, realizing what it was when he asked the group of anyone had a light and she noticed the cigarette he held in his lips. Finally having an excuse to start a conversation with someone, and acting out of habit from hanging out with smokers, she pulled her own lighter out of her pocket and slowly approached him. 

Before she was able to say anything, or had even gotten very close, the medusa-like girl and another newcomer both seemed to have the same idea. The medusa had pulled out a lighter of her own, but the new newcomer showed her up by pinching the end of the cigarette and lighting it with what must have been her power. 

[color=6ecff6][i]Well, that's an obvious choice. She seems like the type who always wants to pick a fight, and so she shows us that she has literal [u]firepower[/u].[/i][/color] After a few seconds Erica decided to just introduce herself quickly, instead of giving up like she now wanted to. [color=6ecff6]"Well, they say great minds think alike... although I was just gonna give him my lighter. My name's Erica, what's yours?"[/color]