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[permutates]

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[ She's been working herself hard. Maybe too hard: she spends hours a day in the gym, sometimes as many as eight when she's not sleeping. She's read books on how to get in shape quickly and safely - more or less - and she's pushing herself as far as she can go. Trying to find her limits.

Today, she can also be found coming out of the CTS with Kelsier, bruised and mussed and a little bloody, and grinning ear to ear. If you're trying to impress me, it's working, he tells her, and she kisses him on the cheek and flushes bluer and makes her way to the Infirmary to make sure she's got nothing worse than bruises.

She hasn't reached her physical limits yet, but emotional is a different story. Being a child again, with that faith in Charles, has shaken her. Her conversation with Charles before that shook her. And sometimes, even when she's feeling fine - maybe when she's feeling the most fine, paradoxically - she starts crying. And sometimes she can't stop. Tucking herself into a corner of the gardens and trying to muffle the sounds of it so no one catches her at it. It's embarrassing, and she can always eventually manage to pull herself together and make it back to her room. ]

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[ Raven is blue, with red hair, not hiding. ]

What's something you've done here, for the first time? Or thought or realized, for the first time.

[ She's not sure what she's looking for. Maybe a little hope. ]

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[Private]

[mistconduct]

I know right. They come in, they integrate seamlessly into Earth society and then they just fuck shit up from within.

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[warisart]

It is something I will never regret that this institution has given to me.

I would be very pleased to play for you. I have been studying a variety of Earth composers when I have the time to practice. The piano is in the art room.

[velocette]

[He hums, nods slightly.] Ignorance is the most familiar state of being. Maybe what they see in you is what they can't ever be, no matter what they try; it can be intimidating to be faced with a boundary you can never hope to cross.

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[permutates]

New York - Westchester.

[Private]

[permutates]

I'm a shapeshifter.

[ And she can't decide if she's offended or not. ]

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[permutates]

Do you think... that you could get used to the blue? I don't really like hiding how I look, when I don't have to.

[warisart]

I find it fascinating. I was merely surprised.

[Private]

[mistconduct]

But you're from Earth. You're one of us! You're not an alien hellbent on fucking with people for the sake of some shitty war, raising up fucking hellfire on innocent people just because you want to see your enemies dead.

[Private]

[permutates]

...Well, I'm not an alien.

[ She doesn't think so, anyway. How would she know if she was? ]

Do humans and mutants stick together when aliens come?

[permutates]

So it'll be okay?

[permutates]

...or just someone who can look like anyone they want, and spy on you.

[Private]

[mistconduct]

Common enemy. They'd be stupid not to.

[velocette]

"Yeah. Maybe that wouldn't be an issue in another society, but any real or imagined threat to privacy here is unthinkable. For the middle and upper classes, anyway. In my neighborhood, no one had any secrets. Our walls were too thin."

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[intelligently]

Is that anywhere good to visit? Minus it being New York.

[warisart]

Yes. Alex has explained to me that he knows you.

Which is self-evident.

[Private]

[permutates]

Sometimes people don't do what's smart.

[permutates]

We're friends.

[Private]

[mistconduct]

Just. Relax, okay? Mutants survive. They adapt. It's kind of their thing.

[breathoflight]

[Elena nods a little.]

He is a good man and he is a dear friend despite the time we spent apart.

[Private]

[unknownsoldier]

Maybe.

They're easier.

[warisart]

[...Curious.]

Alex would benefit from having a few more friends here, I believe.

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[wecanavenge]

[He's no good at this, at handling their emotions. He's been trying - because he understands the flaws in their upbringing, even if his gut reaction is that they have nothing to complain about. He knows that's not true, not fair. But his point of comparison is miles from theirs.

He scratches at his jaw, reaches up to idly run a leaf between his fingers. He doesn't speak right away, doesn't let himself, because he wants to shake them both.]

Why?

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[permutates]

[ She shoots him an exasperated look. ]

Because I love him.

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[wecanavenge]

[Exasperation is the perfect feeling. He's tired of dancing around this, so he pulls his arm away from her and lets out a breath through his nose.]

And he loves you. So both of you can stop being ridiculous about whether or not you've hurt one another, now. Stay away from him, find your feet without him. It's a good thing, Raven; crying over it isn't. [And he's frustrated with her, for being upset. Frustrated both of them for making the relationship they had so sour. He never had something like it, and wouldn't see it squandered in two of the people he cares about most. It's unfair, it's not his business, and he knows it.]

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[permutates]

That's what Ivy said too.