"So Bobby helps you with your training and teaches mathematics now, does he?" He looked away appearing wistful, but it was really Cadence going over the information in her head to get information correctly lined up. "The last time I saw him was the day of my...disappearance. He was still a rather young man then. It's hard to believe he is old enough to teach now, though not all together surprising. He always had a way with helping others, being patient long after some had given up."
Robert Drake, twenty-seven-year-old heterosexual male from Boston Massachusetts. Excelled in all areas of math and science, averaged in most other subjects. Happy. Goofy. Trusting. Honest to a fault. Mama's boy. She knew a lot about Bobby Drake. Is was amazing and sometimes alarming just how much one could find on the internet of they knew where to go and what they wanted.
She could feel the way June froze, saw her stiffen almost imperceptibly. This confirmed her previous fears and true pity changed Xavier's expression. This girl had been harmed, more than likely by a man. And probably more than once. It was the most likely reason her powers had been triggered since she was so small. Puberty coming early just didn't fit. "They should take good care of you," he said tenderly, feeling for the little girl. Cadence had been beaten and abused so many times in her underground prison it was hard not to empathize. Harder still not to say anything, but she managed to keep her mouth shut on the subject.
"Believe it or not," he said, voice taking on something more teasing, "adults are sometimes afraid of things, too." His busy brows rose in amusement. "We're not always as fearless as we pretend to be. At least I'm not." He nodded at the mention of Mystique. Raven Darkholme. Once a key member of Magneto's brotherhood, then flipped on him when he left her after she threw herself in front of a cure shot. Cadence was a great admirer of her work.
This conversation was going almost better than she could have hoped. June was talking about bringing Xavier home with her, and before she knew it, she was nodding. "I think I would like that. It will make it a lot less frightening to know I have a friend with me. I have some friends as well, if you wouldn't mind them coming along. They are good people as well and they'd very much like to see the school as well. They are mutants, like you and like I used to be. Do you think it would be all right if we invite them along?"