Hrm. I'm curious.

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

So.

Who promised you the world on a platter while you were here, that's what I want to know. Who promised you the rose garden and the happy ever after with lace and sugar and a ribbon on top without oh, I don't know... you not having to actually work for it at all? Which "they" walked up to you and said you had to trust them and they expected it from you? Mmm? Hell, I haven't even told Miles anything of the sort.

So some of you keep saying "they" lied to you. Some keep saying "they" as though it were some sort of curse word, but fact is, I don't know anyone called "They" here. And some of you keep acting as though you're being kept in jail.

I'm wondering here. Who?

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[x-rahne.livejournal.com]

Mr. Marko, I get the impression that some of them aren't sure at all they don't want to go back to dangers they already know how to deal with.

I can't speak to all that. My guardian does know I'm here. I could go back home -- I think -- though since I don't know what to do on my own and home is in Scotland, I would be in trouble if I were just thrown out, but I don't think the professor would quite do that. "Mutant" was a relief compared to "werewolf"; they'd let me out of the cage before Reverend Craig decided to send me off here. I stopped in during the visit to Muir, and 'twas a little uncomfortable, but not so bad. When I found out about the U.S. Army attacking a little before I arrived, I did think about asking to.

Likely I was mostly homesick then. I haven't asked yet. Maybe I ought to, if I'm just being troublesome here.

But Ms. Blaire, yes, you've pointed to all those journal entries about attacks. No, we maybe don't spend a lot of time talking about them now. It still does come as a shock to find out that sort of thing after getting here. It did to me, and that was before there'd been a second one -- much less a second one in the school, when I found out what a man's breaking bone felt like between my teeth. (I know. I know. So many of the rest of you have killed, and you'll only think me a silly child about that. But it was memorable, anyway.) You can't read the journal systems without finding out about them first, and for most people that's after they get here. Nor's it quite something everybody necessarily thinks to do.

The professor's been very kind. So have quite a lot of the other people here. I know that some didn't have other places they could go, even though I can't say I know what it's like.

It still seems to me 'twould be right to mention some of the kind of things that've happened before someone comes here.

But I know what I think doesn't really matter.

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[x-juggernaut.livejournal.com]

From what I gather, there's folks outside these walls that're just as dangerous as the guys who came after Wisdom, or Stryker's boys who came in after the Professor.

There are a lot of hard facts that you kids are going to have to come to terms with, and one of them's that there isn't anywhere that's going to be "safe". Not unless you go underground, hide, and pretend you're not what you are.

Here at least, there's other folks in the same boat as you. That's got to be worth something.

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[x-marrow.livejournal.com]

Not unless you go underground

I tried that. It didn't work.

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[x-rahne.livejournal.com]

I know there are people as dangerous outside. Those ones came in from outside, after all. I know 'tisn't necessarily safe anywhere, even though I can't say I've exactly come to terms with that. I'm not saying it isn't worth anything to be with the people here. I'm very glad to have met some of them, and I am grateful to the professor. Maybe home wouldn't be safe for me, though I'm quite sure it's safer for me than the other options some people have, and I know I can't complain.

'Tis just that I can understand being upset about getting here and then finding out that 'tis a target as well as a school.