"The train was attacked, in the mountains. I think SHIELD hates how few answers I have about that, because they've questioned me on it over and over again, but I didn't see anything. It was night and it was snowing; I had never been so far south that trees were everywhere like they were in those mountains. I was watching the window when there was this huge, fiery explosion. Everything was too bright and everyone was screaming and I think I remember falling.
The train car I was in tumbled down the mountainside and landed in the Omolon River. It iced over, and formed an air bubble. I survived, but I was beyond hurt - SHIELD thinks I might have actually remade entire organs. I don't know the science of it. My healing factor kept going and I stayed unconscious and on ice until eventually, the ice thawed out enough to make the train car fall into the river, and I woke up."
He shuts his eyes to get through the next part, because he's too scared of seeing Dolemeck's rejection. "The ice melted because they built a dam upstream. I was in Pevek because Pevek had the only fully operational gulag at the time because I was in the ice for fifty nine years. Dolemeck, the reason I don't have family is because I outlived them, my town, and my government. I outlived my usefulness. A remnant like me is a liability to the current government, and if SHIELD... if SHIELD hadn't found me..."
And now he really is shaking, the kind of shudder that comes from the memory of icy water, blinding sunlight as he washed up onto the riverside, the cold cutting at him as the mountain winds blew across his exposed skin and tattered clothes. He curls up as if seeking shelter in Dolemeck's arms. He's such a freak. Even among mutants, he's something out of a horror story.
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The train car I was in tumbled down the mountainside and landed in the Omolon River. It iced over, and formed an air bubble. I survived, but I was beyond hurt - SHIELD thinks I might have actually remade entire organs. I don't know the science of it. My healing factor kept going and I stayed unconscious and on ice until eventually, the ice thawed out enough to make the train car fall into the river, and I woke up."
He shuts his eyes to get through the next part, because he's too scared of seeing Dolemeck's rejection. "The ice melted because they built a dam upstream. I was in Pevek because Pevek had the only fully operational gulag at the time because I was in the ice for fifty nine years. Dolemeck, the reason I don't have family is because I outlived them, my town, and my government. I outlived my usefulness. A remnant like me is a liability to the current government, and if SHIELD... if SHIELD hadn't found me..."
And now he really is shaking, the kind of shudder that comes from the memory of icy water, blinding sunlight as he washed up onto the riverside, the cold cutting at him as the mountain winds blew across his exposed skin and tattered clothes. He curls up as if seeking shelter in Dolemeck's arms. He's such a freak. Even among mutants, he's something out of a horror story.