new icons (she didn't ask for them).

[eisenhardt]

Oh, yes. Thank you. I'm absolutely abashed by all the attention. And you're covetous too? As always, the charm compounds.

[ translation: i hate you and everything you choose to make me. ]

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[abetterway]

[A slight shrug.] It does well enough, now I've found it again.

[eisenhardt]

And where was that?

[abetterway]

Greece, actually. I went there after the war. [Her hands drift. absently, down to her wheels.]

My stay Israel helped as well. [The slightest arch of her brow; she's wondering if they share that in common.]

[eisenhardt]

[ judith tries but is unable to piece it togehter. the xavier she knows, aside from being male, hasn't lost his hair and was too young at the time to have fought in the war. it would be presumptuous to assume them the same person based on their disability alone though there is that inkling. ]

You served as a nurse?

[abetterway]

[Jocelyn may have cheated.

Her smile twists. Her hand dips beneath her collar, and pulls out the dog tags hidden beneath.

Charles Xavier. It was the name her parents would have given her, had she been a boy.]

Not quite, no.

[eisenhardt]

[ now that is certainly illuminating. she blinks, then allows an ironic, subtle smile to wash her face clean of incredulity. ]

Do not tell me that is how we know each other.

oops wrong company entirely

[abetterway]

[A slight shake of her head, as the metal sinks out of sight.] The Korean war. I've absolutely no idea what you were doing at the time.

i was down with it.

[eisenhardt]

Mm. Much better. [ it was job-searching, if she thinks back. not a terribly thrilling time in her life but she remembers it as not long after she wrote off relationships -- and people for the most part. ]

babs would like her.

[abetterway]

[Her smile is a grim, thin thing, this time.] Never the description I thought I would use, but yes.

she'd probably like her too, though computers what.

[eisenhardt]

And Charles is what they call you? [ perk of her brows. it's interesting that she disguised her gender -- judith assumes with the aid of telepathy. part of her wonders why she doesn't do it all the time, the dirtiest part. ]

babs would be happy to teach her. ...not on her computers.

[abetterway]

Yes. It's what my name could have been, had I been born male. [There are certainly times she wishes she had been.]

...My brother was drafted. I didn't want him to go alone. [Bitter guilt tightens her features.] Quite a lot of good that did.

i think that has all the possibility to be unexpectedly hilarious.

[eisenhardt]

Noble. [ not as sharp a word as when she uses it to describe her male counterpart. instead there's a mournful intonation. does xavier -- the one she's familiar with -- have a brother too? that changes quite a lot. ]

Younger or older?

[abetterway]

And stupid. [She doesn't sound as bitter as she once would; simply tired.]

We were the same age, just about. Cain was my step brother.

[eisenhardt]

[ better to be stupid than cowardly, not that she would know from experience. ]

I hadn't known. Charles -- that is, the Xavier I know -- has never spoken of him. [ or her. either way she absolutely loathes admitting the man has depths. ]