by Kiwa Ealdwine » Sun Jul 11, 2021 1:38 am
In truth, Kiwa felt a little bad about joking with the kid now, but she'd never admit to it. At least, not directly.
Indirectly however....
"I was assigned to Edmond after the accident." She confessed." -So I don't really know what his initial reaction was to taking a life. But I know he did it because his last mum, my Uncle William, was nearly killed by someone who attacked them and he was trying to protect William. Edmond didn't understand the depths of his own powers. This was fairly common in his age group. They knew about mutants then, but many of our kind were not open, and the Institute hadn't grown to prominence as it has these days. I doubt a university was even on the table when I was attending the Institute.
To outsiders, it seemed as if the man attacked William, and then got hit by a city bus attempting to flee the scene after William managed to fend him off, sustaining some injuries in the process. Even William presumed that is what had happened... And so Edmond got off on the situation legally, as from all outward appearances he hadn't done anything at all. Though I believe the Spencer family has their suspicions of the situation, I wasn't exactly notified of their suspicions. I didn't find out until much later what had happened, when Edmond told me himself.
When I was assigned to him he had already become a recluse, albeit one locked inside a London flat instead of isolated on a sub-tropical island. I was told I should watch for him engaging sexually with women who could be dangerous to him. He had recently found out about Basil, and that on top of the accidental homicide put him in a dark place mentally. So far as I could tell, he mostly drank and moped about it.
I'm sure there was more to it internally, but his recovery from it was just... something we never directly discussed. We are British after all." She quipped again, hoping to cut some of the tension.
"Truth be told, I don't think he ever has. Not fully. That's why we're here now. The trauma from it all was such that as soon as any inkling of a problem rose in his life, he would retreat further and further to avoid another accident."