He takes her away

Kurt glanced at her plate, and then over his shoulder. "If you're done with breakfast, I can take you somewhere less overwhelming."

She looked down at her plate, that still had roughly the same amount of food on it, and nodded. He held out a three fingered hand. She wasn't sure what it was for, but she clasped it. It was soft, and then, with a sudden puff of smoke, she was no longer in the mansion. She was sitting on a log, in a forest. She would have fallen off in surprise if he hadn't grabbed her shoulder.

"These are the woods out back." he explained. "I can't teleport that far, but I can go pretty much anywhere on the grounds no problem. The best view is on the roof, but the forest is nice too. There were lots of trees back home."

"Where are you from?"

"Deutschland. That's Germany. Since you seem too polite to ask, I've looked like this since I was born."

"Really?"

"Well, I used to be smaller, and not so ruggedly handsome!" he laughed. It was contagious, although she didn't think Kurt could be described as "rugged" without stretching things.

"But you had the fur?"

"Oh yes! Not the teleportation, but the fur, ears, and tail."

"Tail?" she hadn't noticed it, but the moment she asked, it was right in front of her face, pointed, like a devil's.

"I can hardly blend in with humans, so when I'm done here, I'm planning to join the X-Men!"

Ashley blinked. She knew a little about the X-Men, the mutants who fought evil mutants. She had always been afraid that if she used her power, they'd come after her.