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It's her first evening away from home, and even Papa's strong mental presence has left her range by now.
It's lonely.
She knows that humans aren't lesser than mutants, per se, but she's still used to a different flavor of minds thrumming against hers when she's trying to go to sleep.
She and Emily aren't the only mutants on campus, though. There aren't a lot of them, but there's one other, at least...
She reaches out to them.
Hello?
it's funny how that would've made you a good influence on me in high school.
He opens a notebook.
i mean, you also suggested the duct tape thing, but...good influence.
yeah, well, you went to mutant high school. different rules, probably.
Mutant high school is best high school.
I would've had a much harder time getting away with duct taping that guy, but then, I could trust the school authorities to take it seriously if I went to them, so I wouldn't have had to.
There's not enough of us yet who actually know enough to teach there.
We're freshmen in college, I think you're more typical there than me.
He laughs a little aloud.
all i wanted to be when i left home was 'z'. i'm still figuring out the other stuff. i guess that's pretty typical, yeah.
Yeah. Maybe you won't figure out literally everything, but hell, who does?
Homework is probably improved by microbreaks involving a pretty telepath.
So improved.
He actually makes it through everything in a decent amount of time. Weird!
He rests his head against hers.
it's amazing that you try when you already hooked me. at this point you could basically just exist in front of me.
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