[It reminds him a bit of Oswin's reactions to this place, and he has to ask.

Well, he doesn't, but he's rude.]

You one of the dead ones?

Huh. It just seems like they're mostly the ones who talk about it as anything other than being kidnapped and having to put off more important shit back home.

[A smirk that's more playful than cold.]

Now I'm guessing a girl.

Nah, I just know the type.

[It's hard to tell what to make of that statement, whether it's positive or negative. Pyro definitely loathes Bobby's relationship with Rogue, but his feelings about Bobby himself are more ambivalent these days. It's easier to see flashes of his former friend's old self without Rogue around.]

You still think it's worth it, knowing it'll only last here?

[He shakes his head, laughing a little.]

I'll just never get it.

[Even he doesn't know the real answer to that. He resists so hard with Euri and Oswin, but the reasons are buried too deep for him to reach.

So he just gives a cocky smile.]

I like having my cake and eating it too.

Just never wanted to tie myself to someone. It usually means getting tied down. I'm not interested.

[Now he's actually getting to his feet, cringing at the blood stains all over his shirt (and, unbeknownst to him, his face.)]

The blood should disappear with the wounds, man. Gross.

They've still got control over you, though, don't they? They influence your decisions. Change your behaviour. You consider them before you do anything. That'd just get in my way.

[He blinks, interested.]

You know about regeneration? Not the kind here, I mean, the real kind.

[And now it's time for Pyro to think deeply for a moment. Faces flash through his mind - Bobby, Magneto, Mystique, Euri, Oswin, Sam - and he can't honestly say if there's a difference, because he's never been in a relationship before.

Shaky ground. Best to drop it for now.]

I only knew one guy with regen before I got here. Has adamantium fused to his skeleton, including huge claws that come out from between his knuckles. [He indicates the length with a hand held out in front of a closed fist.] Experiments, probably. You hear about them, from when we were first going public.

Mutants. [Only a slight pause, because he's gotten the idea by now that he'll have to explain.] Homo Superior. The next step in evolution after Homo Sapiens.

[The pride in his expression very quickly turns to anger.]

It's not just experiments. In my time, they've tried to set up a government registry for us, like criminals, and one really special guy managed to brainwash the most powerful telepath in the world and turn him against us in an attempt at genocide. [He gives his own shudder.] I felt the attack. Like a migraine on steroids, but with this feeling of someone being inside your mind and slowly - melting it, or breaking it, or something like that. Not your brain, your mind.

You can't say something like that without explaining it. [He crosses his arms over his chest, eyebrows arched. Your turn.]