Mutant solidarity. Not that they wouldn't have helped a thirteen-year-old suffering behind a dumpster
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[Yeah.]

She really doesn't seem all right, as much as she's trying to avoid any indication that she's not.

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[Okay.]

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[Are you all right?]

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[--I don't like accidentally hurting people with my powers.]

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[I'm fine. You didn't hurt me.] And she does seem better, now; calmer, more centered.

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[...I'm glad. It looked like I had.]

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[I don't know what you need.]

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[--I don't understand what you mean.]

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[I don't- you're- you're doing things for a reason, I don't know why.]

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[...You could have died where we found you.]

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She curls up tight. [Yeah.]

 

[But that doesn't tell me what you need.]

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[I need to be the kind of person who helps people.]

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Her heart rate kicks up a notch, though there's no other indication that she's upset. [Okay.]

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[Actually helps people, not whatever passed for it where you were.]

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[Okay.]

She doesn't believe it, not even slightly.

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That's reasonable. Depressing, but reasonable. 

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She seems ...content... to stay curled up like that, for now.

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Okay.

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She relaxes, slightly, over a few minutes. Watches them.

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Edie goes back to her book.

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That's fine.

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Yup.

 

After a few hours, she asks for something to eat again - she still claims not to care what - and after another few hours she goes back to sleep.

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They feed her, and at the appropriate hour they go to sleep, curled up together in Edie's bed. 

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If she has more nightmares, she's very quiet about it.

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