Xavier&#39;s School for Gifted Youngsters

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Oh. Yes, it is.

...I wonder if anyone has that mutation.

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I have no idea.

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People here... A lot of them are thinking about their, you know, girlfriends and boyfriends.

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. . . It's a side effect of this place.

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Like becoming ten years old?

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. . . A different kind of side effect.

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[nods, his eyes glazing over slightly]

My sister thought me dead and went to find our killer. I went in search of the fabled city Jacurutu.

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...she didn't know what you were doing?

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I never told her.

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*curious, not judging*

Why not?

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I did not want her to choose. I did not want to see her make this choice. It was cowardice.

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So how would you describe it?

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Unresolved sexual tension.

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Would she have done it if you had told her?

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She might have. She loved me dearly. But she might not. Her love did not extend so far.

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Still, you were just protecting her.

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I was. [there are a flicker of images] At least, that is what I believed then.

I left. I made my way to the sietch.

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*makes a bit of a face at the last word*

What's that?

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A... town. A town within a cave. Jacurutu. It was the land of the water-stealers, heretics. They were wiped out, but there I saw my fate. So I went.

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What did you find there?

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Sandtrout. The infant form of the giant sandworm. They were kept in sandpens for breeding purposes. And to be sold-offworld. There, I was captured by smugglers.

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Was that part of your plan?

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Oh. Because of that rule.

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Yes.

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