Devin continued to remain silent as a few other cars arrived and dropped off individuals. It had been long enough that Devin was starting to wonder what the plan exactly was. Why were they being dropped off in what apparently was a field? Thoughts of practical jokes or worst thankfully hadn’t entered his mind, but he was figuring something was delayed or lagging behind the intended schedule. Since they weren’t driven to the school they were likely going to be taking something other than a car. What that could mean was above Devin’s imagination. 

The group seemed to finally acknowledge that the silence was starting to board on awkward. Though for Devin he was perfectly happy with it he had learned that for those with eye sight silence can be deafening. You could usually find out the most social by seeing who talked first. This seemed to be the smoker who possibly picked it up through his social circle. He seemed to open the conversation to introductions after a short sort of awkward cigarette lighting scene. Devin couldn’t really figure out what happened, but the voices seemed more annoyed than grateful or welcomed. 

The first to offer themselves up was a young boy from the sound of it. His voice was pretty high, but not high in the way most girls sound. Devin just assumed that puberty hadn’t hit the vocal cords quite yet. He seemed to sense that Devin didn’t like smoking and mentioned it to the group. Devin was slightly startled and began to say he was more interested in them moving down wind rather than not liking them smoking at all, but soon enough realized that the boy wasn’t talking about him, but another person.

The conversation train had barely left the station when a car came and brought another. This person’s voice was fairly low and seemed southern with a slight drawl. He also seemed to walk with a heavy weight so Devin pictured him as a bigger person. It didn’t really mean anything to Devin other than it seemed to play into all parts of him. Big body, big voice, big personality. The new addition jumped started the conversation that seemed to have died with his arrival. His inquire to everyone’s state of doing was reasonable. 

After Mason and Erica made their names public Devin finally had a few names to work with. He was starting to see how the international of the student body was something he could be thankful for. While normally it isn’t that easy to memorize voices and thereby people he was noticing how different everyone’s was and saw the ability to remember them an easier task than normal. Mason seemed like he would be across the pond as it were and Erica and Greg, the higher pitched voice, made the total number of names Devin had heard increase exponentially.  

From their voices Devin could tell they weren’t yet starting to move closer to each other. Everyone was still respecting other people’s space and privacy. Devin appreciated this as the ground dampened any movement or walking. All too often he would think he was turning to talk to someone only to have them stay they moved to his other side and he just showed them his back. The one person he could always locate was the person who was steadily and constantly moving and pushing buttons on some sort of game thing. He seemed to turn it off and then give a soft hello. Devin assumed he was talking to someone specific and since it wasn’t loud or sounded like it was aimed at him he ignored it. 

When Lynn made her wrong meeting Devin couldn’t stop himself from giving a good laugh. It was short and brief, but very much put a small on his face. He wasn’t overly embarrassed, but he did dislike as this was enough of a scene to bring him to everyone’s attention. He saw it as good a chance as any to let them know his name at least. Since he hadn’t heard anyone walk behind him he turned to face what he assumed was most of the group from the voices he had placed so far. He knew the tree giving shelter to Casper was to right and Lynn and the accent woman were more towards Mason who was on his left. He figured he was looking more towards the deep voice person was (Kane) since he was in the middle area between the majority of the group.

“Name’s Devin. Any of you think they are going to come pick us up any time soon?”

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The boy named Kane was the first to reply. He spoke a little in French so Devin replied in kind. Having been born and raised in Canada he was fluent in both English and French. "Certains d'entre nous ont attendu beaucoup plus longtemps que d'autres." His tone was friendly just like the question. Devin was relaxed, but still wondering just how long a multi-million dollar facility was going to let its students wait.