Heaven and Hell in an Old Gray City

[uneasy-rider.livejournal.com]

It has come down to the moment. Scores of mutants, mundanes, and power-mad people living in between them are scattered across the once grand ballroom of the hotel. A day of peace and reconciliation has been revealed to be a lie and the Exiles are caught up in the riptide of violence.

At least one man's sins are being revisited upon him from an unearthly stare.

"Tell us all about your sins in the world, Professor!" The woman is undeterred by the people Xavier has put in her way. "How does it feel?"

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[canadiansixpack.livejournal.com]

He casts his dark gaze on Xavier's bloodied corpse. Finding out he wasn't responsible for killing Raven all those years ago... it's been a great deal to straighten out in his head. But what he had planned couldn't have been allowed to come to fruition. "I worked fer him," he says eventually, with a gesture at the wheelchairbound corpse. "Decades ago. I thought he had somethin', some vision fer the city, fer the world. Turns out it wasn't th' kind o' vision I could stomach."

[exiles-2h.livejournal.com]

Jean Summers' tear-stained face and huddled form mutely testify that not all shared Logan's dislike of Xavier's dream.

[ms-tique.livejournal.com]

Ramon snarls at the redhead. "What? Did you think you'd be one of the few people left with any free will when he telepathically enslaved the entire planet?"

He doesn't have a gram of sympathy.

[canadiansixpack.livejournal.com]

"Marryin' his kid off inta th' Lensherrs woulda given him th' final funds an' th' resources he needed fer his pet inventor ta create th' biggest an' most powerful mind control device on th' planet." He pauses, his expression darkening. "No thought private, no will left that wouldn't be under his control. That was his idea o' a mutant revolution."

[ms-tique.livejournal.com]

"We spent the night destroying his machinery - and it's inventor. Don't think you can rebuild on his ashes." She looks at Xavier's mourner in disgust.

[house-of-mystiq.livejournal.com]

Raven leans against a wall and tiredly rubs one temple. Before Luche Libre can say anything, she pre-emptively mutters, "It's not the same thing."

[wanda-maximoff.livejournal.com]

Wanda whispers the Sh'ma, apparently horrorstruck at the revelation of Xavier's true plan.

[house-of-mystiq.livejournal.com]

Raven looks up, happy for the distraction.

"This is why we had to get your sister away from Alex Summers. They both would've been used. I don't know if there would've been anything left of either of them by the time he was done."