Kitty walked along the path surrounded by the entertainers. Many were playing odd instruments but the tune was good. It made Kitty want to dance but she didn't' know this type of dancing. It was quite odd. A lot of the entertainers were dancing as they traveled and it was quite… entertaining.

Kitty suddenly felt a tug on her shirt and looked down to see a little girl. "You have very odd clothes." The little girl pointed out, but politely.

"Yes, I guess so." Kitty agreed. She didn't really believe her clothes were odd of course, but theirs were. Basically meaning that they didn't think theirs odd but instead hers.

A girl walked up and pulled the little girl away. "Sorry. Excuse my little sister Trish. She can be quite annoying at times. I'm Eya." The girl said, holding her hand out to Kitty.

Kitty shook it. "Kitty Pryde."

"How old are you?" The girl asked, assessing her.

"Sixteen." Kitty replied. "Why?"

"We should get you some better clothing. You stand out too much here." She then giggled. "I guess either way you're going to stand out with your lighter hair, eyes, and skin."

Kitty looked around. The girl was right. Almost everyone had black hair with tanned skin. Some had light eyes but most were dark.

Eya grabbed Kitty's hand and pulled her toward one of the wagons. Pushing aside some thick cloth that went over it she could see a wagon full of clothes. Some of it looked like a wardrobe for jesters, other looked like colorful dresses for princesses, queens. There was normal clothing to do work, peasant clothing, simple yet colorful clothing.

Eya began to search through the clothing taking frequent glances at Kitty as if to try and determine what size she was. Finally she pulled out a dress and held it up to Kitty to see if it would fit. It was a pretty, but simple dress. Very colorful but the colors were faded.

"Try it on." Eya urged. Kitty looked around nervously. She didn't see anywhere to try it on.

"Where?" Kitty asked.

Eya shrugged. "Find some bushes." 

Kitty's eyes widened. "The bushes?"

"Why not? You don't have to change; I just thought you might want to." Eya said, looking out at the dancing people.  Kitty sighed and made her way off the path, but not that far. As long as she could hear the music she'd be fine.

When she turned to put it on Eya was there. "Like, what are you doing?' Kitty asked. She liked her privacy when she changed.

"Well, I don't see how you plan to get in that by yourself." She replied, grabbing the dress from her.

Later that day Kitty and Eya were walking with the other entertainers; or minstrels as some of them preferred being called. Eya was dancing just like the other girls but Kitty merely clapped. She wanted to dance, but this dancing was much different then the kind she knew.

Eya went over to her. "Come on! Dance!" She urged, grabbing Kitty's wrist and pulling her out toward where the other minstrels were.

Kitty shook her head. "I like, don't know how to dance like that." She replied, pulling back, but not invoking her powers.

"So? Do you know how to dance at all?" She asked, letting go of Kitty's wrist.

"Yeah." Kitty said slowly. "But it's like, a lot different then that."

"So! Let me see." Eya urged.

Kitty sighed and listened to the tune a bit. It'd be difficult to dance to with her style but she figured she could manage. She began to bob her head slightly then really got to dancing, swaying her hips and moving her arms a bit. Eya watched intently.

"It's… weird. You move well though, my mother could probably teach you to dance. Would you like to learn?" Eya asked.

Kitty stopped dancing and looked at her. "Learn to dance?"

"Yeah. And perhaps, you could even be an entertainer until we find you're home or something." Eya said excitedly. "You'd certainly be something new! You're lighter hair, skin, and pretty big blue eyes." She went on.

Kitty smiled shyly at the last comment. "That sounds like fun."

"Of course, you're a little too pale. You'll get a tan soon enough. Come, let's find my mother." Eya said, once again grabbing onto Kitty's wrist. This time Kitty followed her to a tall, skinny, and quite pretty woman. Not really beautiful, but certainly pretty.

"Mamma, the new girl wants to learn how to dance. She doesn't know how to get home either so until we figure out what's going to happen to her, shouldn't she work? I mean, we all have to carry our own weight around here don't we?" Eya said cleverly.

The woman laughed at this. "Of course." She replied, catching onto Eya's game. She knew Eya just wanted Kitty to join her.

"Hmm..." She said, looking Kitty over. She reached out and pulled the pony-tail holder out of her hair letting her hair fall about her shoulders. "Well, you need a tan, and we should find away to curl that pretty hair of yours. Probably a bluer dress to show off those eyes huh?" She said.

The rest of the day Kitty spent with Eya and her mother learning how to dance. It was quite interesting and Hara, Eya's mother, was a very good dancer indeed. However, when Kitty showed her, her native way of dancing Hara was intrigued and decided that combining the two styles would be interesting and new. Kitty even began teaching the two that form of dancing. Some of the musicians even joined, interested in the foreign style and began making up music more appropriate for it.

Finally, as it was getting dark the group stopped traveling and Kitty was able to sit down and relax her aching feet. Her legs felt even more tired from the days dancing as they walked then one of Logan's training session. However, the music and dancing around her did not stop. A large fire was made in the center of a large ring of the wagons. The few horses they had were fed and they brought out stools and logs and anything they could find to sit down on. Most were dancing or drinking though. Few getting drunk but several were and Kitty made sure to steer away from them.

Eya was currently dancing with a boy. Looked about slightly older then her and from what Kitty could tell she was fourteen. The boy was cute; dark brown hair that almost looked black with light brown eyes and tanned skin. He was tall and lean and he carried a small wooden pipe with him that he'd often bring to his lips and begin playing as he danced. He'd often wink at Eya and she'd blush and twirl away so he couldn't see.

At one point the boy was called away by a group of other boys and Eya caught sight of Kitty. She hurried on over to her and grabbed her wrist. "Come dance with me!"

"Who was that?" Kitty asked teasingly.

"Oh. Him?" Eya asked, nodding in the boys direction and blushing. "That's Adrim."

"Are you two, like, a couple?" Kitty asked grinning.

Eya's blush deepened. "No. Of course not! Come dance with me." She begged, tugging on Kitty's wrist.

"But I still don't know how." Kitty replied.

"So? You know well enough. And you can dance the way you dance if you want. There's no rule saying you can't."

Kitty sighed. "I'm tired. My feet like, totally ache! I don't know how you guys can do it. Where I come, we totally do not travel like this." Kitty complained.

"How do you travel?" Eya asked, letting go of her wrist and sitting down next to her.

"In vehicles. Animals don't pull them, they move by themselves." Kitty tried to explain.

"By themselves? Are they animals themselves? I mean, do you sit on them?" Eya asked confused.

Kitty laughed. "No. We sit in them. They're like, just pieces of metal and plastic put together and it has an engine that moves it. I'm really not into cars so I don't know how to explain it." Kitty once again attempted to explain.

"Cars?"

"Yeah, the vehicles. The way we travel. Oh, never mind." Kitty said frustrated.

Eya shook her head. "Weird." She was then silent for a second and looked around a bit. "Let's dance." Eya tried again.

Kitty groaned.

"Come on, please?" She begged.

With one last grunt of reluctance Kitty stood up. "All right, I guess I'll dance."

Eya jumped to her feet excitedly. She then took Kitty's elbow and steered her into the ring of dancing minstrels around the fire.

After a while Adrim joined them. He flirted with Eya mostly but his eyes often flickered toward Kitty and he'd send her charming glances. He was cute and Kitty would look away almost shyly, but she wouldn't blush. She had been flirted with before and smiles didn't really do that to her anymore unless the guy was really charming.

After a while the dancers retired for the evening. Mainly the older ones who had actually had to do work but there were still a lot out and Kitty was sure people living nearby or were near at all could hear them.

Eya, Kitty, and Adrim were dancing on the outside of the ring when an older man made his way toward them. He was drunk and had his eyes on Kitty. She didn't notice him come, just felt his hand grab onto her arm. She turned to look at him and he swayed in his drunkenness. "You'rre diffferent." He said with slurred speech. He then grinned. "Pretty."

"Leave her alone George." Adrim said his face suddenly stern for the first time.

George turned to look at him. "I don't want to. I'lll do what I want!" He said, shoving Adrim. Adrim hardly moved, just stood his ground.

"She's a guest; you will treat her with respect." He said firmly.

"Don't be telling mme what to do." George growled his tanned face showing a bit of redness.

"Kitty, maybe we should get out of here. George gets violent when he's drunk." Eya whispered to Kitty as she took her arm. Kitty nodded but for some reason just then George stumbled back and tripped.

Eya gasped and shielded her face with the arm not touching Kitty as the man began to fall on top of them. Kitty gasped, clenched her eyes and waited for impact. It never came. She heard a thud, opened her eyes, and saw George on the ground. He slowly rolled around to look at her and Eya with a shocked expression.

Kitty suddenly looked at Eya. She had recently removed her hand and was staring at Kitty wide-eyed. "He-he went through us!"

Kitty looked at Adrim and he looked just as shocked. The musicians around them had stopped playing and some of the dancers had stopped dancing to stare as if trying to figure out if they had really seen what they thought they'd seen. Then slowly the whole place went silent as people who missed the incident stopped what they were doing to try and figure out what was going on.

Kitty's heart was beating hard. How would they react to her being a mutant? Would they try to kill her or send her away like half of the population from where she had come from had done when faced with the fact that mutants existed?

Adrim took a step toward her and touched her cheek. He pressed, nothing happened. He pressed again and Kitty phased. His hand went through her and his eyes got wide and he jerked it away. "H-how did you do that?" Eya asked nervously. "I-I can't… right? I mean, you did it… right?" She asked, touching her face.

Kitty shook her head. "I did it Eya. I… I… well… I'm a mutant." She said, looking at the ground. "I can phase through things… walk through things." She muttered, yet in the silence everyone near could hear. She remained silent after that though, waiting for someone to judge her, someone to tell her to leave, someone to try and attack her.

Someone moved. It was the man, the one she had met first, the one who appeared to be their leader. She hadn't seen him since that time but now here he was again. "A mutant?" He asked, his voice not revealing a single emotion. Stern, that's all it was.

Kitty nodded.

"What's that?" He asked.

She looked up at him. "It… it's just a human, except they have like, an extra gene called the X-gene. It allows us to have powers and… and… mine's the capability to, walk through things." Kitty mumbled.

"Will it be a threat to these people?" He asked, looking her in the eye. Once again she felt as if his eyes were boring into hers, as if he could tell if she were to lie or not. She didn't dare look away.

"No sir. I will not hurt anyone and I totally have control over them. It was just, he was going to like, crush Eya and me. It, I, it was a reflex." She was going to say that she did it to save them but in a way that was a lie. She hadn't actually meant to and she had a feeling he'd know if she lied.

The man nodded. "Very well." He then turned and walked away. George scrambled to his feet then and pushed through the crowd to get away from Kitty.

Adrim suddenly laughed. "Did you see his face?!"

And everyone else started to laugh; the dancers began to dance, the musicians began to play, and although people kept giving her odd or nervous glances, things went on as usual. Or… as usual as this place could get.

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Okay first, my traditional apology for taking so long. Sorry!

UnknownSource: No, it's Joseph's fault they came into this alternate universe but it's Qual's spell that separated them. And as for any relation with the prince in Rogue's part and the last… haven't really decided. I have a plan for Rogue already but if you had an idea for the prince alone go ahead and make your suggestion.

^Crysala^