Brooke thought back to the speech. She very clearly remembered being on board with everything announced there, but then it was hard not to be. Mutants were a superior species, and they should rightfully rule.

She very much believed that.

But she had felt those things rather intensely. Far more intensely than she normally did.

She looked up from her lap to meet Stephanie's gaze, twisting the carnelian ring that she always wore, feeling rather unsettled.

"What's going on, S?" It went without saying that Brooke wouldn't say a word of this to anyone.

Not that anyone would listen to her, anyway.