If what she had done before could be described as a cringe, what she did at his words had to be nothing less than sinking into herself. Face awash with fear and guilt and worry and more fear. Her eyes could no longer meet his and she stopped trying to force that smile. Even her feet pulled off the floor a few inches as she brought her knees up.
"I..." Lorna's mouth worked and then she was gulping and then her head was swaying back and forth and her fingers pressing against each other, "look... I... I wasn't getting any real help... you know... at Xavier's... and I thought... I just wanted... it's only mutants over there... and not all of them are... and I... I learned a lot more over there, okay? About controlling what I can do... That's all... and... I'm sorry."
He hated her. Why did she always screw stuff up and make people hate her? She was so stupid.