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Boy, bar, several pieces of lined paper and a scowl.

He needs to figure out who to write notes to, and how to say what he needs to say.

Judging by the collection of balled-up papers nearby? It's not going well.

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"You'll make friends." Probably. He's kind of socially awkward himself.

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X offers a one-shouldered shrug.

"I have friends here."

Beat.

"It is easier."

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"I think it's harder, sometimes," He says, thinking of Xaldin and Jay.

[cutting_edgex23]

X frowns, just a little.

"I do not understand."

People are not afraid of her here.

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"Just. People from our world understand things better."

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Cue X's blank look.

"I do not--"

Beat.

"There are people like me. Here."

X is very bad at explaining things.

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"...mutants?"

Yeah, he doesn't get it.

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"Weapons."

X clarifies.

"And experiments. It is okay."

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"--oh." He shrugs. He still doesn't understand.

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"They are not afraid of me."

It's the best she can do.

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"Oh. Right." That's true. The only people 'like him' that he's met have been generally unpleasant.

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X looks a little awkward.

Again.

"Okay."

Beat.

"You have found someone to teach you magic?"

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"I did but. I've been waiting until after I go home to speak with him again."

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"Oh."

Silence falls.

And then--

"Why?"

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"Because I don't want to waste his time if I won't be back."

[cutting_edgex23]

X tilts her head.

"You will stay gone?"

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"I don't know. There's kind of a war out there."

[cutting_edgex23]

X shrugs.

"It is like that a lot."

X's view may be a little skewed.

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"Not for me."

[cutting_edgex23]

"Oh."

X absorbs that.

Then--

"I am sorry."

But whether she means for the war, or the fact that he is not used to it--

That may be unclear.

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"Shit happens." He shrugs.

[cutting_edgex23]

"Okay."

X does not know what else to say.

Except--

"You are hungry?"

It works with Stitch.

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And Billy is a teenage boy, which is a species not far removed from Stitch.

"I could eat."

[cutting_edgex23]

"The sandwiches are good."

Beat.

"And the root beer floats."

And X will order some if Billy does not object.

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"I don't like rootbeer," He says, amicably. "But a sandwich would be nice. Did you know there's a children's fund?"