[That gets him a sad smile. But she also appears to be really thinking about it.]

Ultimately I wish that we would have a chance to prove our trustworthiness before they automatically clamp down on us. I just wonder if I wouldn't have failed that test myself. Back home I'm the girl even other mutants are scared of. And I don't actually want to be. [She is all the ambivalent, but at least she's calming down about it.]

[Fozzie sneaks his head out of his crate and sets it on his paws, wiggling his eyebrows soulfully as he gaaaazes up at them.]

I have a lot of mixed feelings about this. [But he makes sense on a certain level; she can't deny it.]

Sometimes you remind me so much of him that I want to run the other direction. Other times you're exactly the kind of guy I wish I'd known when I was younger.

All right. Compromise. I'll...we should meet more, talk more. There are things I could tell you as well. Might make your future easier.

I just...need a few days.