"It's very brave of you to do that, given what you've told me about yourself. Who has been training you, or have you been self-teaching yourself so far?"

She smiles, cutting into her poached egg and toast. "Maybe she needed the shock. Oh it can be dangerous, but it also depends on how you handle it and where you're out. England, for instance, isn't so bad for us. I spent some of my adolescence there and lived there again for the last thirteen years." But you wouldn't know it by her dialect. She still sounded like she was a girl from Chicago.

"Now for a boarding school in the US? I think you're probably safer keeping your identity intact." But girls were also vicious wherever they were from.

"It sounds like she really doesn't know how to react to you making a decision for yourself and your own life. I had some struggles with my own mom when I was in school. She decided it would be safer for me attending a school that exclusively had kids my age. She thought the X-Men were a bad influence on me. Which...they were an influence on me, but I wouldn't call it bad. I did grow up fast around them, however."