Now now, you didn't come here asking after human threats, Agent Hill, you'd have gone to Security for that. You took it upon yourself -- out of professional curiousity and obligation, I can only assume -- to ensure we had safeguards in place for people with powers, or people who aren't exactly people as you know them. Problems other organisations aren't qualified to deal with, as you put it.
[ His rebuttal is mild. You don't get to be a PhD student, a professor, and friends with """Magneto"""" by being awfully worked up by disagreement. He can see the assumptions in return unravelling in her mind too -- truly laughable ones -- but doesn't speak to them directly.
That'd be rude.
But he does feel a need to explain; ]
Our game plan changed too, back home. The cat was out of the bag early on, and suddenly, the world knew who we were before they were prepared, and the measures they took to try to understand people like us ranged from shooting first and asking later, all the way to vivisection. You'll forgive me a little defensiveness.
Being someone who understands the worst of humankind, [ he adds, not insincerely. ]
no subject
[ His rebuttal is mild. You don't get to be a PhD student, a professor, and friends with """Magneto"""" by being awfully worked up by disagreement. He can see the assumptions in return unravelling in her mind too -- truly laughable ones -- but doesn't speak to them directly.
That'd be rude.
But he does feel a need to explain; ]
Our game plan changed too, back home. The cat was out of the bag early on, and suddenly, the world knew who we were before they were prepared, and the measures they took to try to understand people like us ranged from shooting first and asking later, all the way to vivisection. You'll forgive me a little defensiveness.
Being someone who understands the worst of humankind, [ he adds, not insincerely. ]