[This weekend perhaps... Term finishes this week and then all I have is marking.]
Aurus followed the boy's retreat from the group with his eyes, not moving his head but still tracking him closely. He couldn't tell if the reaction was a willful misunderstanding of what he'd said or simply an expression of a frustration that had no place to go.
This Andrew, he thought, was someone who he should speak to further--speak to without his peers around. It would have to be Charles' decision if that meeting took place, of course. Aurus was not nearly so presumptuous as to interfere without his permission. But he already had it in his mind to speak to ask him about the boy. From Hakkyuu, Aurus had gained a fair bit of experience dealing with angry young men, but his tactics in no small part involved utilizing the anger rather than trying to mollify or defuse it, and admittedly some of his strategies were a little...unorthodox. Charles might not approve of that. Asking the man to trust Aurus with himself was one thing; asking him to trust him with one of his students could be something completely different.
For the moment, though, he still had the rest of the assembled group to focus on.
"Professor Xavier is right," he answered Suzanne, presently shifting his gaze back towards her and the others.
"Where I come from there is a group with a saying: 'Some must fight so that all may be free.' It's not a bad adage. In my world, it's the elder dragons against which free people must come together and fight. There is no ambiguity about the elder dragons: they awaken to consume and destroy all life in the world.
"Here, your foes are much less straightforward, and your 'fighting' may never need to be with armies. I hope that it is not. Wars are terrible things."
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Aurus followed the boy's retreat from the group with his eyes, not moving his head but still tracking him closely. He couldn't tell if the reaction was a willful misunderstanding of what he'd said or simply an expression of a frustration that had no place to go.
This Andrew, he thought, was someone who he should speak to further--speak to without his peers around. It would have to be Charles' decision if that meeting took place, of course. Aurus was not nearly so presumptuous as to interfere without his permission. But he already had it in his mind to speak to ask him about the boy. From Hakkyuu, Aurus had gained a fair bit of experience dealing with angry young men, but his tactics in no small part involved utilizing the anger rather than trying to mollify or defuse it, and admittedly some of his strategies were a little...unorthodox. Charles might not approve of that. Asking the man to trust Aurus with himself was one thing; asking him to trust him with one of his students could be something completely different.
For the moment, though, he still had the rest of the assembled group to focus on.
"Professor Xavier is right," he answered Suzanne, presently shifting his gaze back towards her and the others.
"Where I come from there is a group with a saying: 'Some must fight so that all may be free.' It's not a bad adage. In my world, it's the elder dragons against which free people must come together and fight. There is no ambiguity about the elder dragons: they awaken to consume and destroy all life in the world.
"Here, your foes are much less straightforward, and your 'fighting' may never need to be with armies. I hope that it is not. Wars are terrible things."