The X-Project

Dear students,

I feel a re-introduction is in order. Several new students have arrived recently, and even those who have been here a while may have seen little of me, due to my other commitments, my sabbatical, and my inability to take on a full teaching schedule prior to this time.

I was fortunate enough to meet most of you at the psychic defense classes, and will be making time to extend that course to those of you who arrived too late to benefit from it. I hope I'll get to know all of you a great deal better in the coming weeks.

Now, let me give you a little information about myself. My name is Emma Grace Frost. You can call me Emma or Ms Frost, I really don't care, so long as you don't call me anything else, least of all 'professor', Ms Emma or 'ma'am'.

I hail from Boston, where I used to be a headmistress at the highly respected Massachusetts Academy, now sadly closed. To date, I've been little better than a substitute teacher at Xavier's due to conflicting demands on my time, but starting in the summer term I will be taking on a full timetable of classes covering Business, Media, French, Psionics and Psychic Defense. If you're interested in any of these classes, come and see me or drop me an e-mail. I will also be available for private study and small tutorial groups, as and when my schedule allows.

I am a telepath. I also have a secondary mutation, a hard diamond 'change form', but you'll seldom see me use it at the school.

I'm a businesswoman. I head a company named Frost International, which is a very high profile company in the fields of electronics, ship building and aircraft manufacture. Primarily, I'm concerned with the boardroom aspects of the business, but I've picked up a few things about electronics and design in my time, as you'll discover if you care to visit me in the new FI workshop next to Henry's laboratory. I won't be offering any formal instruction in those disciplines.

There are other things you'll no doubt hear about me, most of which are true. You'll hear I used to belong to an organisation involved in some suspect political affairs. This is true. You'll here that my parents had me committed while I was a teenager because I could hear voices in my head. This is also true. And you'll hear that dozens of students at my last school were massacred. This, it pains me to say it, is also true. If you have any questions about these matters or anything else I've mentioned today, or if there's anything else you'd like to know, you are welcome to ask me.

We are all here to learn, children, and we are all here to teach.

Thank you for your time,

Emma.

Dear students;

We seem to have stirred up some unpleasant vibrations in the school this afternoon, and we would like to apologise. Our confrontation was in no way, a "cat fight" as some of you may have thought. Rather, as teachers we sometimes voice a difference of opinion and like to discuss our viewpoints, and sometimes we may do so a little too forcefully.

However, we remain very close friends. Close enough that a few well-placed jabs won't do us any damage, though we appreciate it may have a knock-on effect for some of you, which we regret. Even though Emma may appear menacing, she's nothing of the sort, most of the time. And though Betsy may seem a little soft sometimes, she's more than capable of handling herself.

So, we apologize for any confusion this has caused, and ask that you not let it worry you too much. We have spoken privately about Sam's poem and agree that it shows tremendous talent, and we will both look over his piece again and offer our constructive criticisms.

With love,

Elisabeth Braddock and Emma Frost.