"Almost," he was willing to admit. "She's not like me or you. She's very...lively." A polite way of saying that she talked more than anyone else he knew, and she was certainly more excitable. That much energy combined with that much power. Erik could see how much she needed him.
He didn't know what she meant by a 'few' somethings. The one something, the obvious one, was a surprise enough. What on earth could she have possibly been hiding? And what did it have to do with Shaw? The hairs on the back of his neck rose and his back stiffened slightly against the window. "We'd just brought the students back to the mansion. They were half way to destroying it, but Charles didn't seem to care-- you remember," Erik said, brushing a hand through his hair.
"We were all here, like we are now." Easily the first time he'd felt safe amongst his own in years.