A loose tongue helps none.

[calmyourmind]

After having a fifth student this morning inform me that they have no intentions of paying attention to class, and are only here looking for extra credit handouts to help them pass, I am closing office hours for the day for the good of the rest of you. I advise you to go home, if you are able, before you say something far more detrimental to someone other than myself.

[It's bad enough when he has to so many of them think it.]

Comments

[calmyourmind]

I haven't the slightest idea. I do hope so. I doubt it, somehow.

[coinmover]

Then why bother? I've had setbacks, but pursuing things my way is finally paying off.

[calmyourmind]

You and I have very different methods, my friend, and I fear we always will. I'll not be changing my methods any time too soon.

[coinmover]

Such a shame, Charles. You're wasted on them. You'd be welcome to join me, you know. More than welcome. It's among my highest hopes.

[calmyourmind]

As much as I would truly like for that to be the case, I am not sure either of us could ever trust one another enough.

I would like nothing more than for the two of us to work together, but we do not want the same things, Erik.

Even if our end goals are similar, the lengths to which you are willing to go, are likely to go, to achieve those ends... I could never stand by and allow you to do so.

[coinmover]

Please. The suspicions of your future students aside, Charles, no-one has made a real move to stop me so far. And nearly everyone's lives are the better for what I've done already.

[calmyourmind]

And after we have left this island? What then, Erik? Have your opinions on the matter of our world changed in our time here?

If this island is good for anything, it is in proving that humans and mutants can cohabit peacefully, if given the chance.

[coinmover]

As any two peoples with a common enemy can.

[calmyourmind]

I do not believe that that is the reasoning behind our coexistence here. I am not even certain we truly have an enemy, here, but that is a topic for some other discussion.

Erik. The world does not have to be so divided. Humans and Mutants. We should be working together. Not against a common enemy, but for common goals. A better world, improving on what has been left for us by our ancestors. It is compassion and comradery we should be seeking.

Fear, division, anger.

All this will ever bring is more of the same. If anyone would understand that, I would think it would be you.

[coinmover]

Cooperation is negotiated from a position of strength. Anything less, and all you're doing is bringing tomorrow's enemy within arm's reach.

[coinmover]

I will bring us to that position, old friend. Where we go from there will be up to you.