A few months. I lived at the mansion. [Erik assumed she was there with the others, and he wasn't hiding his involvement with the X-Men. Or his situation with them now. He was an honest man, to a fault.] It's been years since then. [His accent occasionally masqueraded as British, since that was the safest way to travel for a bit, but it was German underneath all of it. It took a keen ear to pick up on it, and few did even then.
He nodded, pleased at her answer, and smiled. For him it was a twitch of his mouth, it wasn't what one would call warm, but from him, it was very warm.] I agree. It's appalling to me that people know about this, and seem to know who it might have been, and didn't go searching.