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Club Fair, Gym, Friday Afternoon

Jackson got to the gym early. He took his mission of establishing a sports team in Fandom pretty seriously, see. That involved making something of an effort, and showing up early to check out the competition (yes, he viewed the other clubs as competition, deal with it) was the least he could do.

He grabbed a copy of the club schedule for himself before he went to set up his table.

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"When you're a member of an endangered species only a few hundred strong, it kind of is," Evan answered, his voice softening a little. "There aren't enough of us left out there to continue a population, so... we have to be careful, you know? And anything we have to work with really matters."

Liara's eyebrows knitted together. "There are only a few hundred of you?" she asked.

"They estimated there were only about 198 left, once," Evan replied, nodding. "I think the number has changed since, some that weren't counted, or a few new people manifesting as mutants. But I don't think it's too far off, in one direction or the other, yeah."

He fell silent for a moment more, and then added, "There used to be millions."

"What happened?" Liara asked.

She was fiddling with her fingers because she wasn't sure what else to do about that.

"A few things," Evan replied, doing a bit more fidgeting of his own. "Some of it was humans, some of it was mutants... There was a major attack on a huge city that was supposed to be a safe place for mutants to just... live a normal life, in peace. And there was one person who had enough power that just saying the right words nearly finished the job across the rest of the planet."

There wasn't a student at the Jean Grey School who weren't at least somehow aware that the Scarlet Witch was responsible for the mass extinction.

"I am sorry," Liara said after an awkward few moments. "I cannot even begin to conceive of such a genocide - it's monstrous."

"I... don't remember much of it, myself," Evan admitted, figuring things had just been pretty quiet in the backwater part of Kansas that he'd grown up in. "But the aftermath is... difficult to handle, sometimes. People really wear what happened on their faces for the world to see. There's no denying that most of who's left is desperate."

"I... hope things will get better for your people."

Liara felt helpless and out of her depth.

"Thank you." Evan fidgeted a little more, and then offered Liara a tentative smile. "Sorry, I didn't mean for the conversation to turn into something so bleak."

"It is all right," Liara, making a valiant attempt at smiling back and mostly succeeding. "I understand these problems must be troubling you."

"I... guess. But still, it's kind of a lot," Evan mumbled. "I'd only meant to give an example of where evolution might have some effect on cultural change, and I got a little carried away, and then wrapped up in it."

Evan was pretty good at getting wrapped up in it.

"I understand," Liara repeated awkwardly. "Sorry. I did not mean to make you apologize!"

Liara T'Soni: making spazzfits worse since forty-five years ago!

And now Evan was having one, too!

"Oh, I didn't think you meant to! I just did!" These two. These. Two. "Because! For reasons!"

REASONS.

"Well, it's perfectly all right!" Liara said. She wasn't visibly flailing, but, well. "There's really no need! And I need to stop talking!"

"That would make two of us!"

And Evan snapped his mouth shut, covering it with one hand and then sitting there awkwardly for a moment while he worked on catching his breath again.

...

"... So. Science."

"Science," Liara agreed.

They could settle on that!

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