Hellboy: The Archangels

[Miranda_]

"Thought it would be someone smarter talking to us about all that," Diego said. "Someone who knows what they're doing."

"They might," Tamsin replied. "I don't really know any teenage boys as such."

[Silent_Wolf]

"Hellgirl's in charge of it with the German guy. I just try to make people comfortable when they first get here, let them relax, then the old man can scare the daylights out of them later.

"I was never around Batty all that much when we were teenagers, I was too busy killing ghouls and chasing trolls." -_-

"Believe me, he's got you and your father's appetite." Liz looked up from the folder. "Your brother, I mean, not sure about the new kid. Though we've got another newbie who.. likes chicken souls for breakfast." She raised an eyebrow.

[Miranda_]

"I'm not scared of anything," Diego said.

"All the teenage boys I knew were more interested in trying to buy smokes and huffing plastic bags in the local graveyard," Tamsin said. "It's no wonder really that I was never interested in any of them."

[Silent_Wolf]

Batty fought back a grin. "Well, we'll see."

"..." Fern just scratched her nose as she had no experience with teenagers.

[Miranda_]

Diego just turned away, staring at the floor. He was bored with the conversation,

"In any case, we'd better proceed to the next part before any of the newbies decide to get cold feet," said Tamsin.

[Silent_Wolf]

"Well, the platform's here at least." Fern straightened up and stepped forward with Kraus. "Welcome, everybody. We're going to organize you by your power sets. Anybody with abilities that affect only themselves, you'll go with Abraham." She gestured to the fish man behind her, who nodded and led that part of the group away down the hall to the left. ".. that leaves a small group for me to work with then. Batty, you're done, go get Dad." She waved a hand.

"Shut up, sis." He snorted at her and jumped off the crate, walking past Diego and heading up the opposite hall. The only remaining recruits were Diego, Ghost, and a set of twins who were whispering to each other.

[Miranda_]

Tamsin busied herself with sorting out some files. As a general rule, she prefered to leave this part of the induction to Fern and her father. It was less hassle.

[Silent_Wolf]

Fern rocked back and forth on her feet a bit, quickly tiring of waiting. "Alright, anyway, while we wait, let me tell you how things work. I'll work with you four on your abilities and your talents, but not your people skills, that's Kraus's job." She pointed at the ghost-possessed suit. "Name's Fern. You can call me whatever you want except for 'babe', it gets mistaken for 'Abe' a lot around here. There's a kitchen and you eat whenever you want, we're government funded so it doesn't seem to be a huge problem. There's a library for research and each of you will have your own room unless lack of rooms has you share them."

[Miranda_]

"I'm not sharing with anyone," Diego muttered. "Bad things happen to people I share with."

He didn't mean that in a particularly nasty way; it just happened to be the truth. Since Diego had only a marginal control of his powers, he sometimes released them while dreaming. This was not pleasant for anyone who roomed with him and had caused several upsets in the past.

[Silent_Wolf]

Fern took note of what he said; she'd make sure there was a spare room. "The kitchen's open now if you guys are hungry."