by Miriam Bell » Mon Dec 21, 2015 8:00 am
"For panicking. For..." She seems to hesitate for a moment, almost as if she's trying to remember something. "I was eleven years old. I didn't have the capacity to grief, much less express my feelings. And then I felt her, right here." she says, tipping her temple with a manicured fingernail. "For just a moment she was right there but then they drowned her out. Everyone else who'd come to stare at the accident and not one of them actually cared. Not until I made them. Or tried to anyway. I was just a kid clumsily swinging a tool around I knew nothing about. I got tangled up in their minds until X-Corp showed up and shot me with a tranquilizer." she says and drains her glass before filling it again from the bottle.
"When I woke up Norma was gone along with everyone else but they still bounced around inside my head. Ghosts, fragments, memories of other people. They didn't lock me up and they did help me but I had to piece it together myself and it's still all... jumbled. I asked them, begged them, really, to tell me about the people that had been there but they wouldn't budge. I don't know what happened to them. Maybe they were trying to keep me from finding out how badly I'd destroyed their minds, maybe they were scared of letting me find out what I'm capable of. In the end I think they were just worried I would try to track down the driver." she sighs and keeps herself from rolling her eyes.
"But you know what I've come to realize? They were right. Deep down that's exactly what I was hoping for. Maybe their telepaths saw something in me that I didn't even realize myself but if I knew where to find this man I don't think I could stop myself from making sure he never forgets what he did that day. So there you have it. A human kills a little kid because of a phonecall that couldn't wait and the mutant gets years of therapy on a secluded rock because they're scared. Scared of what the traumatized girl who made a dozen people scream and cry until their voice died might grow into."