[ Jay can't quite hover the way that Julian can, but he stops making forward progression and bobs up and down somewhere between Stryker and Stark. Listening and trying not to feel it all like he was there or like it was his fault. It wasn't. Part of it's not.
But every time Julian talks about anything he casually throws in more things that've gone bad. Jay doesn't know how the guy keeps breathing through all that. ]
I think it was intentionally like that.
[ Jay's looking down at the grounds beneath them. Don't need to be able to see the future or through walls to know what the school's always been for, and Jay's always gotten his feathers ruffled over it. ]
Sam and Paige both went to schools like this, back when they didn't have more'n 10 students. Students died. And they both wound up X-Men. There were hundreds of students here with us. I get splitting us into grades - that's the school part. But into teams? They didn't need to teach us teamwork and tactics unless they were specifically weeding out the ones not cut out for combat. Why do you think I hated it so much? Students died. I wasn't here a month before the first funeral. And the ones that live - they're the X-Men.
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But every time Julian talks about anything he casually throws in more things that've gone bad. Jay doesn't know how the guy keeps breathing through all that. ]
I think it was intentionally like that.
[ Jay's looking down at the grounds beneath them. Don't need to be able to see the future or through walls to know what the school's always been for, and Jay's always gotten his feathers ruffled over it. ]
Sam and Paige both went to schools like this, back when they didn't have more'n 10 students. Students died. And they both wound up X-Men. There were hundreds of students here with us. I get splitting us into grades - that's the school part. But into teams? They didn't need to teach us teamwork and tactics unless they were specifically weeding out the ones not cut out for combat. Why do you think I hated it so much? Students died. I wasn't here a month before the first funeral. And the ones that live - they're the X-Men.