by Narrator » Sat Jun 19, 2021 12:40 am
The large gravel driveway and some of the lawn between the Mansion proper and the dormitories has been set up with grills, coolers with water and soda and numerous snacks, the kitchen staff some mini-catering. Above the entrance to the old mansion a banner reads "Welcome Home Students" with a smaller, clearly somewhat joking line underneath reading 'Xavier's University 1 Year Anniversary'. Students who already arrived from their summer break or never left in the first place are having picnics on the lawn, there's people playing frisbee. Or one person is at least, throwing the disc well across the tree-tops and to somebody who must be partway across campus while a winged mutant is diving through the air trying to intercept.
The head-mistress, a white-haired woman in a pants-suit, is standing with a small group of faculty, talking.
Plenty of mutants of all shapes and sizes are mulling about. Some plain and passing for baseline humans, others with bright pink hair and limbs that are a bit too loose. A slow stream of new students are passing through the open gates, lugging bags with varying degrees of ease. One seems to be struggling to walk on what seems to be prosthetic legs of some kind but determined to carry her own bag, another looks much less optimistic as she tries her best to look dignified moving around with no legs but instead a long serpentine tail that she clearly doesn't really know how to move properly.