Everything we're doing is about making the school safer, though.

[That, at least, bleeds some of the doubt out of his voice, replacing it with conviction.

More than any question of heroism or mutant rights in the world at large, that's what made him certain he needed to stand with the X-Men.]

You can't explain to people back home what that's like, though. Having to fight to protect the people around you...

Not with my mother or father, anyway.