He insists I’ll be safer at the Academy and he won’t have it any other way. Xavier portals us all to one of the empty buildings at the Academy and we don’t think anyone will even notice the unwanted guests… not with all they have to deal with. Hunter and I walk into a room that is one of the standard Academy rooms. Plain white walls, two beds, one on each side, with a dresser in between them, and a desk on the other side of the room, right next to the bathroom door. This is one of the rooms without a window and somehow that makes me feel protected. “I’m going to go back out to talk to them. There’s a bathroom through that door, if you want to take a shower, and I’ll ask Ethan to get you some clean clothes, but you can wear my shirt for now. He takes his shirt off and hands it to me. I immediately notice that even though he looks the same, his body doesn’t. I can tell he’s trained as much as I have. After he gives me his shirt, he reaches for my dagger, which is attached to his belt, and hands it to me.
