The Xavier Institute for Higher Learning

How common is mind control?

[Looks like someone's been checking books out of the library. They're visible from where he's sitting, a stack of at least twenty books all on varying levels of credible mind control information. Jack himself is incredibly shaken by the amount of information he found, and it's a small comfort that none of it seems to match up quite right with Dr. Suchong's research.

He hopes it sounds like simple curiosity, but something about his tone makes it obvious it's a real concern to him.]

IT'S ALMOST CHRISTMAS!

[Woah, calm down there, Jack.

His room seems to have been decorated with mulity-colored Christmas lights around the walls (who let this boy spend money), he's halfway through a box of candy canes and he's already in his ugly sweater - oh wait that's what he always wears.]

What's Christmas like around here? I haven't been around for it since '59... I bet a lot's changed. Oh- and the snow's gonna stick around, right? In Kansas it snowed a little but it always melted the next day... I wanna make a snow fort.

[Well, he's certainly being a chatterbox today.]

What looks like a sword but won't hurt anyone?

It's important.

[Great description, Jack, very informative.

Since Saturday, Jack has been spotted a few times leaving his room to explore quiet places near the dorms, occasionally pocketing money and other random objects found on the floor or picking up oblong objects and testing them against walls. A few of them have caused cracks. Apparently his quest is getting stale enough to need help.]