About as good as it could've, frankly.

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real

As the solemn acoustic guitar plays in my head, the sounds of the voices have stopped. I step into the main foyer of the Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters. The sounds of peoples thoughts were hushed, as I closed my eyes and focused on the music. Someone came up to me, and as they got closer I could feel an exuberance emanating off of him, I opened my right eye, and stared at him. He was blue and furry, in his big grin I saw pronounced canine teeth. He had a pointed tail waving around behind him.

"Nice to meet you, dude! I'm Kurt! I'll show you around if you want."

I nodded. He didn't seem too bad, his thoughts were loud but other than that, he seemed like a perfectly enjoyable person to be around. The two of them branched off from the group as Kurt brought him all over, showing him the kitchen, the dining room, the "basement" as he so eloquently put it. It was more like a militaries training room, but with what they could probably be dealing with with the variations of the X-Gene, it made sense.

"We usually train in there, that's the Danger Room. Remind me to tell you about my first day here sometime, now that was a riot!" He put his three-fingered hand on his chin in thought, "Ah, yes! The people here are not too bad, at least most of them," he chuckled slightly, "let's see there's... the Professor, Jean, and I who you already know. There's also Scott, tall dude with red shades, hard to miss. Evan, he's the skateboarder, sometimes has spikes growing out of him. Kitty is the super short one, she's pretty loud which I think is ironic. Rogue, she's the quiet one, she's got the white stripe in her hair. Oh! Logan and Ororo too, they work here, Ororo is the tall one with white hair and Logan is the grouchy one with a heart of gold."

"Glad to see you think so highly of me, elf." A gravelly voice came from behind me, causing me to panic and turn, quickly backing up to Kurt.

"You must be the new kid, just stay out of trouble and we'll be fine." He said walking off, chewing on a hot dog.

The part that scared me the most was not the man himself, no he was frankly diminutive, it was that he snuck up on me so easily. Also the metal claws that came out of body and were holding the hot dog were a factor too.

"Heart of gold, I promise." Kurt said awkwardly.

I'll take your word for it, I projected in his mind.

"Can you not talk?" He asked.

I just don't like to, my head is already loud enough without adding extra stuff out there, I projected while vaguely waving my hand.

Kurt nodded, then face-palmed, "I am so rude, I never got you name!"

I smiled a small little smile, Rem.