"Staying here and keeping my head down and mouth shut--" Mostly. Because while Emma tried, she wasn't always good at holding her temper in class. "--is a far cry from you deliberately throwing yourself into a war zone, Jack! For one, no one is trying to put me down using weapons!"

Well, no one wanted to kill her personally, but the number of students on the ESU campus who harbored nebulous ideas about 'killing muties' was, steadily, growing.

"As much as you dislike my choices, you at least understand why I'm making them. I don't understand why you feel like you have to do this, when it's already a done deal."