Lucas’ once heavy eyes looked out of the window he had been lying against and began to see the city around him. How long had he slept? Had it really been that long? Last time he had saw they were still in Pennsylvania. Though he hadn’t slept much in the past couple of days since he had been dropped back at the Foster house, waiting for his transfer to the school that his social worker had deemed his last hope. It wasn’t like he enjoyed going from foster home to foster home, but of course who wanted a defected child. Not only that though, when they found out about his ‘special gift’ they wanted him even less. Only the Canes had ever wanted Luke fully….of course then….well that didn’t need to be brought up. He shook his head to get the images of that night out of his head and straightened up, looking to his side and seeing the flirty and peppy blonde next to him asleep. She had tried to talk to him throughout the trop but couldn’t seem to understand what he was doing with his fingers when he tried to answer her. Can’t they teach sign language in schools? It would make the lives of people like me soo much easier. He wondered for a moment in his groggy state if he should wake her as well, but that soon was left moot by the announcement over the intercom.


“Hello and good morning passengers. We will be arriving at our destination in a little under a half an hour. It would be a good thing to start gathering your things and waking up a bit. Thank you for choosing our bus…” After that Lucas started to flinch due to how everyone seemed to wake up all at once and fill his head full of thoughts. He hadn’t tried to block them all out because they had all been asleep and he wasn’t exactly wide awake himself. However, now he wished he had at least tried a small kind of block to keep most of these people out.

Ooo, the cute guy who kept signing at me is awake. he couldn’t help but look down at the girl next to him and turn a bit red as she smiled up at him and made a little wavy motion with her fingers. The fact that she seemed to be still giving him that look made him a tad bit uncomfortable. He thought her name was Connie and she was from Des Moines, but she had spoken so fast his head had spun. He tried to politely wave and then grabbed his back pack, set it on his lap and closes his eyes, trying to calm the voices in his head and press them out, one by one.

Thirty minutes later Lucas stood outside the Bus looking at the city around him. So many people moved here and there he had to struggle to keep his telepathic shield up because of the weight of them all. So many people!! He had always heard that New York was like a HUGE urban area with cities inside it but had never believed it till then. Yeah he had seen the movies with everything about New York, but it seemed to be another world….now though. It was in front of him, bustling and threatening to drag him with it. It was a tad over whelming.

Keep calm….and stay away from the churches with the Stone Angels.