x_snowvalley | Sep. 13th, 2006

All right, so Sarah and I did the rounds of the school yesterday. Talked to a few of the kids who were close to either Jennie or Marius, a few of their teachers, that kind of thing. I also borrowed personal items to try another location spell.

Spell stuff first, since it's quickest. Still dodgy. As far as I can tell, they're still in Europe, definitely not the eastern side since there wasn't that hard edge I get from cities that way. Somewhere... lively, maybe? Sorry, I can't be more specific than that. And remind me to wear gloves next time I try this spell - scorched my fingers again, fuck it.

Now the more useful stuff. I'll leave Sarah to add anything else she has.

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Marius: before he left, he was not a happy boy. Perfectly justified, given the shite his mutation was putting him through. But the telling point for me is that he was putting on that coping face. The one where you really aren't. Wasn't talking to anyone, was cracking jokes and pretending everything was fine and he was just dandy. Thing is, according to some of the things that were overheard, he wasn't. His parents were putting the pressure on for him to get medical help, he stopped talking to his closest friends and when he took off, he left notes and no contact details. When you've got that much pent-up stuff, it's not good - very bad choices tend to get made 'cause you're desperate.

Might be an idea to check out the family connections to places like the Hellfire Club and the like. I doubt Marius is the sort to cut a stupid deal in return for getting some fast help, but just to be on the safe side.

Jennie: By all accounts, she and Marius were as thick as theives, up until his mutation started acting up. Things got a bit tense - they had at least one bang-up fight - and Jennie was royally pissed off when he left. Thing is, that sort of friendship doesn't just go away because one or both parties is a plonker, so my guess is that if she wasn't planning to find him when she headed off on holiday with Daddy, then something might have happened to make her do that once she was over there. There's no messages on her email from Marius, but then again they might have gone the old-fashioned way of sending letters. Angie might back me up here, but I'm pretty sure if we find one, we'll find the other. Possibly shacked up somewhere fun.

There's nothing there to indicate Jennie decided to try life on the villain side of the street, no connections at all to anything beyond the stuff in her file from the witness protection program. Might be an idea to make sure that's all sitting quietly and Tony the Mobster (or whatever his name is) isn't making a nuisance of himself. There's a note here about talking to Fred Duncan about anything to do with Jennie.

The bottom line? Got some ideas as to the state both of them were in when they left, and if it wasn't for Marius sticking to the grand Xavier's tradition of bottling everything up, I'd say we just had a couple of kids extending their summer hols. Still might be that, but something just isn't sitting right with me.

Sofia, if you want my notes, I can send them over to you. You'll be able to get more out of it, given the headshrinking degree and all.