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So, first off, Caroline's mad. That's the thing that gets her, she's mad, and she's not been this kind of mad-at-the-world in a while. She's in the gym, and she's managed to actually mess up one of the punching bags but she's moved to another so she can try and blow off steam.

Well, half blow off steam, and half get better at this, so that her age isn't so much of an overriding factor that she wasn't a better sort of pick then two humans. Let's see Cuthbert go up against Logan, or Klaus, or Mystique, and honestly she wasn't really one to blow her own horn and stack up her powers for her being capable, but it wasn't just her powers. She'd gone up against the Hulk, and was pretty well fine. She could handle herself. She'd died a bunch of times, she wasn't exactly jumping at shadows in the dark. She's trying hard, and she's here, and it's everything that everybody's shown her in this sort of weird mishmash of steps and movements that mixed between human-fast and faster than, and Logan said it was like stacking marbles.

She's sweating and glaring, and really it looks like the bag's personally offended her, but she'll figure it out later - except, of course, she hears the woosh of the door and she turns on a dime, glaring - somewhat without reason - at whomever's in the doorway.

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Her brows furrow, and she pauses for a long moment to try and say what she wants to say, not get lost in her own thoughts, and speaks slowly. "I don't know why they're in charge," she says, and then pauses again, before coming up with another sentence, and it's the one that she doesn't even know how to say right. "Steve, I sort of get, but even that - isn't that the sort of thing that people should decide? Like, 'We think you are the one person out of us that knows how to handle this' or whatever."

She rubs her hands on her legs, still trying to stay put together, to not be ranting or mad or anything, because she does want to be taken seriously, especially by Mystique, and the best way that's going to happen is for her not to be all overly-excitable-neurotic-control-freak. "I think they made a bad decision, especially if this guy is as violent as they said he is. How do I- if I push back, what then? It's just their voice against mine, isn't it? And he's Captain America."

Spock doesn't factor into this much, not for Caroline-- because she's met him a couple of times, and he seems sort of nice, but pretty quiet, and she honestly has no idea why he's involved in this at all. She never watched Star Trek, and wasn't about to start.