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Who: Mystique and you (she supposes)
Broadcast: Yes
Action: On the Golden
When: 17 May

[You would think someone was holding Mystique at gun point with the initial look she gave the camera, looking none too happy to be making this broadcast, but a huff of a sigh and roll of her eyes later and she managed to compose herself to a more neutral expression. She of course could fake a more fitting emotion easily, she was well versed in acting a part but since this wasn’t a mission she saw no point in pretending to be something she isn’t. Others would just have to deal with that fact.]

After being in talks with other occupants of our current predicament, it seems the best way to past time here between our semi regular stops is to take up a hobby or something of the likes. And considering I came here with practically nothing, [Not that Mystique needed much, yet she certainly had been missing her weapons until she was on board the Golden and had gotten access to guns again, sating her need to be constantly armed.] And I have been told my typical actions are not the most practical choices here, [There was a pause as she seemed to struggle with saying the next words, as if the entire idea disgusted her.] I would be interested to know what others do as hobbies or to past the time. [That may be the closest to her asking for help that most here are going to get out of her.]

I am willing to swap information. I may not be practiced in more mundane activities but I do have a wide knowledge on more specialized topics if someone wants practice on how to arm and protect themselves.

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Unless he is planning to do that here, there's no point in me doing that. [She had no life outside of this place, literally. Not that she expected any real link if she was still alive in her world.

After all, she's talked to this Kurt more than she has ever with her own son.]

[Notably, Kurt doesn't look surprised at that implied revelation; then again, his expression is carefully neutral.]

I suppose there's no point to you getting accustomed to the idea of children from either of us, then. I certainly have no intention of remarrying.

[Mystique didn't bother pointing out he had missed Rogue in his comment, her own guesses on her daughter's ability to reproduce, yet once again she knew she wouldn't be a part in any child's life, not with the divide she had created between them. She was accustomed to being alone, this didn't change anything.

Her gaze however sharpened a little at the mention of his marriage, part of her willing to just brush it aside as information and leave it at that. Yet she was trying to play nice, trying to not burn bridges before they even formed. Trying. So she asked, her own tone carefully neutral to it all.] May I ask what happened so you're not married anymore? [See? Trying.]

[She reproduced quite well, in his world. A caesarean had been necessary of course, but baby Charles was a healthy, loving little boy. But from what tidbits he's gathered from this Rogue, her version of Mystique was a poor mother; it's none of her business.]

She met Dukes. [Carefully neutral is the name of the game, apparently. Kurt still doesn't trust this version of her enough to switch the video to private, but he'd rather not air his horrors for the network to see. Let them think his wife ran off with someone else; those who need to know, will know better.] A thing like that tends to sour a man on the prospect.

[Her eyes widened for a fraction of a second before Mystique was able to pull her expression back into a neutral tone, remembering the warning he had given her about Fred when she first arrived. If that was what he had meant, how he had known to not like Fred go hungry...]

That's unfortunate. ['I'm sorry.' But she wasn't able to get that out, not able to say or show that to him, or to anyone who might be watching. Nor was she able to bring herself to turn this to a private conversation, to bring attention to it needing to be private. That would be as bad as making it just between them, easy to read that something was much more serious behind his comment than a general brush off. Yet her gaze softened a touch, just around the eyes, enough that he who was raised by a version of her might be able to tell what she really meant with those words.]

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