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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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. ]