"Erik had too much fear of humanity and what they were capable of. Charles didn't have enough." The past tense for Charles was because he thought, or wanted to think, Charles was capable of recognizing that mutants being hunted down and slaughtered like animals was not something that didn't deserve at least some fear. "Neither one of them was particularly effective at anything but getting in each other's way."
That was a lot of wasted effort and energy, and maybe Scott shouldn't be thinking of humanity as a whole as an enemy right now, but he's still alive and anyone who couldn't see how he'd gotten there wasn't paying attention.
He poured the soup into two mugs and cut the burner. He took Rogue's to her, and gave it to her by holding it at the bottom and leaving the handle for her to take hold of. He sat down on the floor near the fire with his own, back against a wall, one knee bent up and other out straight. He wasn't as cold as she was, but he was cold enough.
"Hindsight's 20/20." He took a careful drink from his cup. "Going forward, however far we can go, we've got to change how we do this." There weren't enough of them not to, and they weren't dead yet. Speaking of doing things differently - "You know I'm not letting you go back out there without some kind of range attack onboard."
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That was a lot of wasted effort and energy, and maybe Scott shouldn't be thinking of humanity as a whole as an enemy right now, but he's still alive and anyone who couldn't see how he'd gotten there wasn't paying attention.
He poured the soup into two mugs and cut the burner. He took Rogue's to her, and gave it to her by holding it at the bottom and leaving the handle for her to take hold of. He sat down on the floor near the fire with his own, back against a wall, one knee bent up and other out straight. He wasn't as cold as she was, but he was cold enough.
"Hindsight's 20/20." He took a careful drink from his cup. "Going forward, however far we can go, we've got to change how we do this." There weren't enough of them not to, and they weren't dead yet. Speaking of doing things differently - "You know I'm not letting you go back out there without some kind of range attack onboard."