Nathaniel had a way of speaking that made him sound as though he were bored with everything. it was kind of amusing to X-23, listening to the way he listed the things he could do profession-wise. it was in the same tone someone would use when ticking off the mundane events that occurred on a normal day. For some reason, this made her inwardly chuckle. Until, that is, he mentioned her name again. All humor was then gone, and she remained silent until they were well away from the front desk.
Taking the offered key, she slid it in her pocket and pressed her back against the elevator wall. "Yeah," she said after a minute of thinking. "I've heard of it." Those kids who'd been mistakenly put into her cell at Alkali Lake. They'd all been from Xavier's. Bunch of whiny kids who kept telling each other it was going to be all right. That Professor Xavier would rescue them. "It's a mutant school, right?" The guy with the adamantium claws had been with them then. Maybe he'd still be there. The idea brightened her perceptibly. "Think I'll tag along." if he didn't mind. if he did, she'd go on her own. For someone so smart, something as simple as going to the school had not even crossed her mind.
"I wasn't meant to be raised happy and free," she finally told Nathaniel as the elevator stopped and the doors whispered open. "The number is all I've ever known. It's who I was raised as, who I'll always be. besides..." She made a face of disgust. "Laura sounds like some little blonde girl with pigtails. That's not me, and it never will be."