video transmitted to everyone / few hours after Loki's battle

[shrewd_doc]

[ Even if your communicator was turned off, put away or nowhere near you, you will proceed to hear a loud beep, perhaps alarming you, and the little red light turns on, on the top of the device

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[arethebettermen]

audio;

You are thanking us after toying with us? [ Charles shakes his head, even if she can't see it. He's rather disgusted. It makes his stomach drop. ]

[shrewd_doc]

It was quite enjoyable, actually. Watching you all nobly protect my city you all claim to hate.

[arethebettermen]

It's hardly the city. It's the people in the city.

[shrewd_doc]

Just think, Charles. Without my city to bring everyone together, you would never walk again.

[arethebettermen]

Some would say that is a good thing. [ Charles is refusing to let her get under his skin. It's not like she can damage him like others have. ] And I wouldn't quite call this walking, I'm afraid.

[shrewd_doc]

If your guilt of your best friend becoming bad didn't consume you, always having to lose everything without a thought for you.

Why don't you grow some, Charles. Be a man.

[arethebettermen]

[ He merely blinks once or twice before giving a small laugh, shaking his head. It does rile him up, but he's not going to give her the satisfaction of it. ]

I would take up your advice, Doctor, if you would listen to it yourself. [ Charles raises an eyebrow. ] Telling someone to be a man while they hide in the shadows? It only makes you look like a coward.

[shrewd_doc]

I wouldn't want to wound anyone too much, getting beaten by a scientist, in the least. Getting hurt by the shadows is a little less demeaning. But you would know what a coward is, the mind is a fickle thing, isn't it. Privacy means nothing to you, does it.

[arethebettermen]

And yet being hurt by someone in the shadows simply shows they don't have the power they think they do. [ He shifts in his wheelchair. ] We both seem to breach the contract of privacy, don't we?

[shrewd_doc]

It's why I brought you here, Charles. You're just. Like. Me.

[arethebettermen]

Except for the part where I manipulate the lives of others for my own self satisfaction.