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[cain, sokolov, around like 7 am]

How old are you guys?

[a couple hours later, filtered to unaffected wardens and inmates who aren't into the senseless violence thing]

There's a new kid, needs some help.

[She sends in a link to the transmission of a teenage girl she doesn't recognize fighting with her restraints.]

I can talk a kid down, I know that, but I need someone to come with me in case she gets some ideas. You can come with, or give me the name of someone who can? Still haven't caught who's still themselves.

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I can help. [After a moment, her fingers brush her temples.] And I might...be able to calm her down.

[Lua gets the gesture, even if she doesn't know the exact details. Enough people here can get in other people's heads she understands.]

Could do with that.

We can work together - you talk to her, I'll soothe her mind. [It was one of the first things Xavier taught her. This is a bit different from panicked civilians, but - she thinks it will work.]

It'd be better than having to do... something else... if she's gonna be trouble.

You, me, and maybe a guy at the door?

[Jean grimaces as she nods. She definitely hopes things don't go that way; they're supposed to protect kids, not hurt them.]

I...can probably knock her out if I have to. [But she's never done that before, and she doesn't know how long it could take, what damage she could do.] But having another person definitely won't hurt.

Yeah. Someone we can get to run for it.

If you take her out of that, I hope you're planning on putting her into different restraints. I can't imagine there being no reason for her to be strapped as she is.

[Not actually what she was thinking, though she's not going to say that- wait isn't this guy a really quiet inmate from last year?]

Gonna take a look at her first.

[Jumping to the worst conclusions: it's what he do.] If you're looking for another hand...well, I'm feeling a touch useless at the moment, and I'd like to help however I can.

Gonna need one. Some people, they want to be the only one inside their head.

I would think that's most people, actually.

A lot of people get used to the idea around here.

...Wonderful.

But that, I suppose, isn't the point right now, when troubled girls need an assist.

[She shakes her head, but she's agreeing. It isn't the point.]

You know how nasty kids can get sometimes. Just in case something goes bad.

I am same old as always.

That's good.

Not everybody's gonna be, right now.

So I see this!

I wanted to check.

You any good with kids? [A question she's not about to ask Cain.]

Kids, just small often stupid people. This is fine.

So it's any other day for you.

Not any other day. Kids mostly do not have machine guns or desire to kill.

You gonna miss the excitement?

No. I do not like.

Sounds good, then. You been talking about being bored.

There is some territory between bored and scared to no shit. Perhaps children will be in this territory.

They're too small to do too much to you.

Small but more clever than often anticipate.

[Well that's an unusual question. He chuckles, shrugs.]

Pretty old. This side of sixty. Why?

Wanted to make sure you weren't six all of a sudden.

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