twenty-fourth phase [ dictated ]

[walkinthruwalls]

[ Everybody was gone. Everyone from home, anyway. It had been slowly coming for months but now she was all that was left. The last mutant. The last X-Man. And it sucked. In nine days she'd have been here for eight months. For most of that there'd been someone, a reason to actually keep doing everything that she did. She'd fought to keep the training going and to not give up. Now? Now she wanted to give up and she couldn't find a reason to not ]

I can walk through anything. Even here the only thing that's stopped me has been the Dead Zone. For every entrance there's an exit, even a hidden door. Maybe out further into the Dead Zone is where it's hiding and that's why we haven't found it - maybe it's further than we've been. I'd rather find it than wait to be picked off.

[ Galadriel ]
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[walkinthruwalls]

[ What if she likes it? It's certainly perspective putting? ]

What if what happens when they leave isn't a comforting thing and being here was better? [ Because when this place is good she prefers it here - all the good and none of the hate, or anything bad from home ]

[inafadingcrown.livejournal.com]

[She's thought about this a great deal. It's not a safe world that her kith and kin returned to either, after all.]

Was it better? Truly?

When first she arrived here, my granddaughter spoke of our world as a tapestry; a single thread may seem insignificant, but remove it and the whole may unravel. We exist here on borrowed time; pleasant it may be, but, whatever our fates, we must return to them. There are things more important than comfort, and even safety. We all have our duties and our parts to play.

I do not mean to suggest, however, that you are wrong to mourn; the heart is moved as it wills and it is natural and well that you should fear for your friends and miss their companionship. [And, truth be told? Galadriel will miss these most recent departures a great deal as well.]

[walkinthruwalls]

Better than the people you care about dying. [ Or having to kill them, in Logan's case ]

Fate kind of sucks. [ Especially if it's unchanging fate ]

[inafadingcrown.livejournal.com]

[Gently:] Do you wish to speak of it?

It may. But it is not unchangeable. [She's rather certain of this.]

[walkinthruwalls]

Would it help? [ She'd only told Logan so he knew where she was in the time line. Out of everything from home, all of the stories and the things that sounded amazing this was what she left off ]

At least there's no one here to know my future.

[inafadingcrown.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. Knowledge carried alone may be a heavy burden. [This... is somewhat hypocritical of here, given how many secrets she has. But she carries the weight willingly.]

[walkinthruwalls]

[ She'll just quietly thing for a minute. Or two ] Having powers isn't always that great. People are afraid.

[inafadingcrown.livejournal.com]

That I know well. [She's feared just as much as she is loved.]

[walkinthruwalls]

It's not just fear. I go to a special school to protect people like me but it doesn't always work.

[inafadingcrown.livejournal.com]

You are not the first to tell me such things. Still, it pains my heart to hear of it.

[walkinthruwalls]

Before I came here a lot of people died and the school nearly closed because of it. [ Because of one person, rather ]

[inafadingcrown.livejournal.com]

And these are the conditions to which your friends have returned. [She can understand the feeling a little better, then.]

[walkinthruwalls]

Things that they have to go through. Logan came here before that happened.

[inafadingcrown.livejournal.com]

And it troubles you to know that those you care for will face such pain.

[walkinthruwalls]

Yeah, especially when they've seen bad things before.

[inafadingcrown.livejournal.com]

You trust them, do you not? And you think them capable?

[walkinthruwalls]

I've seen it. I know they can do it but it doesn't make me feel any better about them having to go through it.

[inafadingcrown.livejournal.com]

I know. But there is little you may do save trust in them and offer comfort when you are able.

[walkinthruwalls]

It doesn't sound like it'd do much.

[inafadingcrown.livejournal.com]

You may also pray, if you believe in such things.

[walkinthruwalls]

I've never really done that. I have faith but it's never been something too big. [ Or rather has been less over the past couple of years ]

[inafadingcrown.livejournal.com]

Mayhaps it would bring you comfort.

[walkinthruwalls]

What do you do? [ She'll try to see ]

[inafadingcrown.livejournal.com]

When I may offer no practical aid? I keep those for whom I am concerned in my thoughts always and I ask the blessings of the Valar.

[walkinthruwalls]

I can do that.