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[On the last night of the draft, Kurt took a major beating. For those who had been there, Kurt had become a flurry of teleportations, moving in and out of the enemies and becoming almost impossible to follow. He doesn't know how many he might have wounded or killed, but it had all been halted when he got stabbed with a near fatal wound. He doesn't even recall what happened after that. In fact, between that and the sickness, he only wakes up today in a bed in the medical center. When he tries to get up, he realizes that's not so much a good idea.

At the very least, he finds his journal next to him. So... he pulls that out to ask the inevitable question on his mind.]

I'm back in one piece. Sorry if I worried anyone, but I'm ahh... not even sure what happened.

... so, did we win?

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Ahh, I get it, world traveler. [Let's see... fantasy world, travels the world, lots of magic.] I bet you were trying to stop some big evil guy, yeah?

...Well, in a way, yes. [HOW DOES HE KNOW?] I mean...I would like to hope that his intentions were not, at the start, evil.

[MIND READER.]

I don't think anyone wakes up and decides to hurt people. Some people just... it just happens to them. They cross a line and can't go back. [The way he says it, this is clearly something that is more than just philosophical to him.]

[Among all of her friends, Mia has the distinction of having known this villain since they were both children. Growing up together. Learning Psynergy together.

She doesn't tell anyone but sometimes it's entirely unbelievable that he's been able to manipulate everyone for so long.

And what's worse, sometimes it's so much like him that it terrifies her. None of this will show on her face now, understand, she's too good for that. But it's on her mind]

I believe he really did begin with...with Weyard's best intentions at heart.

[He does, however, get a sense she knows this person somewhat well.]

What did he do?

He...he wanted to restore the world, I think. ...But now, it seems more like he...wants the power of Alchemy for himself, to use as he wishes.

Alchemy? Restore the world?

[Kurt is... not quite following.]

[Another sad, quiet smile]

I promise to tell you the whole story some other time.

... fair enough. [He'll leave it alone, then.]

What about your world?

Well... what about it?

[There's a lot to say. He doesn't know where to start.]

Tell me about where you come from.

Well, for the past few years I was living in Bayville, yeah? At the Xavier Institute. It was a place for people like me, mutants, to learn to control our powers. It was run by the Professor. He's a good guy. He can read minds, but even though he's powerful enough to control your thoughts and actions, he uses his powers to help people. Everyone there does. It's what the X-Men are about.

[The 'X' being the reason for those weird uniforms he and Rogue were wearing during he draft.]

...I don't think I know what 'mutants' means, the way you are using it.

[Not even a flinch on the mind reading. Ivan's not able to control anyone's actions (though...he would play a lot of pranks if he could) but he doesn't use his ability for too much mischief either]

It means different. We have powers that normal humans don't. So... we're mutants, because of that. Usually people fear or hate us for it.

[Because frankly... what mutants can do is pretty scary stuff.]

...So in a way you're like Adepts, then.

Maybe. Are adepts considered freaks in your world?

[Because just having powers... it doesn't make it the same. Maybe on a sort of genetic level. But that doesn't mean much.]

['freaks'...is also an uncommon term for her.]

In some places, Adepts are...frowned upon. Viewed as cursed, or...in some ways, not quite human. Because non-Adepts can't see Psynergy...we just seem odd, and things happen around us without warning.

It was all right in Imil as a healer, and the people who live there accept that strange things happen. And there are towns where not being an Adept would make you stand out. ...But some places, and people, dislike us or want to use us, too.

[... so, different all around the world. It makes sense.]

... you're lucky to grow up where you did, then.

...You haven't found acceptance anywhere in your world, have you? For people who are similar.

It's not everyone. There's some people who aren't like that. [But there's less of them than everyone else.]

[it is obviously a sensitive subject for him. It won't help his recovery if he gets too agitated, either. Perhaps a slightly different line of conversation]

And those that aren't...are the ones you live with now?

The other people at the Institute are mutants like me. There's Rogue... and the others. [He won't go into their names right now. They're not here so... it's not important.]

Rogue too? I didn't know that.

Guess you didn't really see her in action, huh?

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