"If it is a 'person' at all. I confess to have believed in capricious spirits- and after joining the X-Men I even met a few," she said with a slim, wry smile and slightest graceful tilt of her head.

"But energy, unschooled and wild, perhaps guided by the expectations or desires of the people who have found themselves here, can it be blamed in the way a person might?" She reached over to put a hand on his shoulder.

"I do not wish to play devil's advocate, merely to try and see this place in a more forgiving light."