[She stiffens at that first question, shaking her head immediately.]
No. No, no, pardon-- [Clarification's necessary, though clarifying...might not actually clarify, she's realizing as she speaks--quicker, insistent.] S'more like. Sorry. You learn to defend yourself pardon, how to use your gifts.
[Ruth hasn't told him just how varied people's mutations can be, how potentially dangerous if they aren't trained in control. But--she straightens a little, pushing a lock of hair behind one ear--the important thing isn't home, anyway. Not what's happening there. All that matters is that they find a way to get back--for Logan's sake, for the sake of timelines that crash together in her mind, if not for her own.
(And later, when it doesn't matter, maybe he can hear the whole story. Used to live on an old prison island off the coast of California, but--)]
If I...yes. If I start bleeding, or--sorry, something else. Make it stop.
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No. No, no, pardon-- [Clarification's necessary, though clarifying...might not actually clarify, she's realizing as she speaks--quicker, insistent.] S'more like. Sorry. You learn to defend yourself pardon, how to use your gifts.
[Ruth hasn't told him just how varied people's mutations can be, how potentially dangerous if they aren't trained in control. But--she straightens a little, pushing a lock of hair behind one ear--the important thing isn't home, anyway. Not what's happening there. All that matters is that they find a way to get back--for Logan's sake, for the sake of timelines that crash together in her mind, if not for her own.
(And later, when it doesn't matter, maybe he can hear the whole story. Used to live on an old prison island off the coast of California, but--)]
If I...yes. If I start bleeding, or--sorry, something else. Make it stop.