We're back.

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Rather anticlimactic, all things considered. Kurt's with us and not too badly hurt - obviously, since we brought him back on the cargo plane - although he's going to be a while in recovering. He's down in the infirmary, with Amelia giving him a thorough going-over.

Sadly, we didn't bring back any explanations as to precisely what the hell was going on. Magneto was there - we spotted him at the end of a hallway, but picking a fight in the middle of a hospital, even a shady private clinic that was holding Kurt against his will, was not really an option.

I'm almost sure he meant for us to see him.

If anyone wants my opinion, this was some sort of a test, to see how we'd react. I can think of at least three incidents while I was at Mistra where we were lured into demonstrating how we'd respond to a particular situation; it can tell an enemy a lot, so long as they're not throwing away anything too valuable. Given that Kurt was obliging enough to traipse happily into their hands, the bait came at no cost to them, even. And after the ambush they pulled with the Blackbird, it's fair to say that they were probably wondering how that might change the nature of our response to something like this.

Note for the security-minded: how whoever it was knew to pass that package with the evidence for where Kurt was to Suzanne has some nasty implications, given that she's not been out in the field with us yet.

I'm going to call Amanda and tell her Kurt's back and able to have visitors.

Comments

[x-storm.livejournal.com]

Testing us to see how we operate without a jet? I think if we have enemies with that much free time and that sort of inclination on our hands, we ought to be more worried than we are.

At any rate, I am glad you are all back safely.

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So, a question, next time Mystique attacks/does something/shakes her scaly blue ass, can we just assign Kurt's retrival team before he takes off again?

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Forgive my need for clarification as I'm still going through the files, but am I to understand that Kurt and Mystique are somehow related?

[x-sway.livejournal.com]

Regretfully, I didn't get a good look at the woman who handed me the files, although I can say with some certainty that she was neither blue nor scaly.

With regard to the security issue, I am concerned that the woman was able to identify me in particular, but I'm more interested in knowing many people were in town the other day that she could have potentially passed the files off to. Was I simply the easiest person to get close to, or was it more targeted?