Full Name: Cassandra Ross
Race: Mutant
Age: 21
Affiliation: Institute.
Base of Operations: Neo-X.
Power(s): Precognition, dream-walking.

History:

Once, at about fourteen, Cassie had a very disturbing dream of a snake attacking her best friend Rita, biting and killing her before eating itself. Rita assured her nothing was wrong. Later that month, Rita's boyfriend stabbed her to death before killing himself. Cassie was filled with guilt, and she immediately submitted an application for the Institute. It was accepted, and she moved in to the dorms. Her mini-predictions are few and far between, and they are always extremely confusing.

It was not until later that Cassie discovered her secondary mutation. She controlled her own dreams, and experimented with them, twisting them and manipulating them until one day she created a door out of her dream. When she stepped out, she found herself surrounded by bubbles, each holding its own scene. By touching these bubbles she could pull herself into the dream of the person projecting it. She has more trouble manipulating these dreams, as they are not her own, but she is enabled with a slight 'spidey-sense' when in another person's dream. Also, while not able to control the dream herself, she has found herself able to suggest that the dreamer themself change it without waking the dreamer in question, similar to asking a sleeping person questions. On telepaths or particularly perceptive people she is almost always detected as soon as she enters the dream. Others, however, can walk right past her and not see her at all.

Cassie rarely enters others' dreams on purpose, at least with the intent of changing something, because it is extremely draining on herself, and she is unable to wake for much longer than if she had only stepped in to observe. In fact, she first discovered this when she missed school for an entire day and her friend came to check on her. Cassie, having been unable to wake, had been jumping from dream to dream, trying to make a door into the waking world from those dreams. This resulted in a small coma lasting around thirty hours. When she woke, she was easily able to figure out what had kept her from waking with the help of the teachers.

She still attends the institute and is working on her bachelor's in anthropology.