Aspen felt bad that she had ignored Cheol's question but when she saw the man in the lab coat she froze in fear. The man in the lab coat appeared to be walking closer to her, she wanted to step back and run into the tunnel. Aspen, at this moment would rather face Miss Meredith than this man.
“Right, which one of you needs treating? I’m Dorian Lost. That’s ‘Mr. Dorian’ or ‘sir’ to you brats, got it? Anyway, come here, Aspen. I’m going to treat your hands, got it?”. Come here? She wasn't about to go anywhere near him, in his hand was a bottle, she couldn't see what it was but from past experience it had to be chloroform or something similar.
Aspen looked over towards Cheol wishing he had stayed by her but he had gone over to talk to Kitty. She had some strange thing over her arm that was covered with creatures. Although these creatures weren't like the two she had witnessed on the tram, these were smiling and colourful and looked like things she could recognise but with faces.
Her attention was back to Dorian who was about to begin to treat her hands. Aspen wanted to push him away, far away but she knew that she would get into trouble. Her fear began to get the better of her and she started to use her telekinesis to push him back but she didn't want to hurt him or cause a scene so she ended up pushing him back so gently that his feet would only slide back across the ground a few centimetres. It wouldn't do much but she didn't feel comfortable with him so close to her; he looked like 'they' did.
Aspen looked back over at Kitty and Cheol, he was writing something on her arm covering. She then wondered if they knew about her, the families back at home in her neighbourhood were told that she had just been adopted by the Archers but Esper program was big news and well known by superheroes and the Superhero community would be aware she'd been rescued, as would this academy but would the students know.
Isaac saw Aspen standing by the tunnel entrance but she had not yet noticed him, no, her eyes were fixed on Dorian Lost and Isaac knew exactly why. Her face was as neutral as ever and even though he couldn't read her thoughts he saw the fear in her eyes. Isaac looked down at her hands, her arms were up near her stomach and her palms faced the sky. Aspen's hands were covered in blood and what looked like glass. Isaac gasped in shock and was about to run over to her when saw Dorian walk over to her, which unsettled him but he watched Aspen and saw she did nothing but look over at the boy who was with her and the girl he was talking to.
Maybe she's made friends, or intends to with those to he thought after a few moments, a small smile appeared on his face.
With Dorian taking care of her hands, Aspen not reacting too badly with him and the possibility of friends with her, Isaac left and teleported back into the academy. She may have been traumatised by what had happened and Isaac wanted to leave it as late as he could before showing himself to her as a teacher here. He wanted her to settle in before she found out as Isaac, his son and daughter-in-law were not sure how she would react to not being told. Would she feel betrayed and lied to? Isaac was not sure; they still had so much to learn about her. It wasn't like he could tell her, this academy was adamant about secrecy.
