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[Blonde. Grey eyes. To anyone familiar with the Malfoy family - Lucius in particular - it's clear that Draco's a relative. He's quiet for the first few moments, although his expression is somewhere between `bored` and `sullen`. He’s not, as one might expect, happy to be here. What can be seen of his surroundings show that he’s not in one of the
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I'm Emma Frost, from the previous wave of kidnap victims.
If the pieces I've put together portray the situation accurately, the people responsible for it died in 1918, along with many other people, in the attack on the Core. Well - such of them as were present on the island to begin with, which probably didn't include the leadership. Hopefully old age, if nothing else, has dealt with the remainder.
A word of advice, if I may - it's not really appropriate to sneer at the Greeters. How would you like to have a job explaining to people of unknown but often great abilities that they've just been kidnapped into an entirely different world and there's nothing they can do about it?
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[A brief pause as he considers her response. 1918. Muggles, then, if old age was expected to kill them off.] 'Hopefully'? I'd want them to fix it.
[He doesn't bother to respond to her comment about the Greeters - he wouldn't want, or have, a job like that, and it's not enough to change his opinion on them or their job. The lack of response probably says about as much.]
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According to report, there were earlier incidents, decades ago.
[At his statement that he'd want the people responsible to fix it, she shakes her head.] No, Draco Malfoy. This power, and perhaps even this island, was built, or at least modified, as a prison to hold people like us. The natives of this world, not those of us kidnapped from elsewhere, but anyone with abilities not possessed by normal humans. The current situation came about because the prisoners attempted to escape by attacking the Core; the backlash killed almost everyone then on the island ( ... )
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Why would I have gone looking for them? I'm not an idiot.
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[Emma studies the video.] SERO believes that repairing the Core would solve many of our problems. AGI believes it would destroy the island and we should try anything else. Ah - did the basics you received include AGI and SERO?
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For reasons that I think would be lecturing excessively to discuss, I believe random change in stable situations is usually for the worse, as is deliberate but ill-thought-out change. However, precisely these changes open the situation to deliberate change, which can be for the better. Therefore, most improvements in stable situations - especially most drastic improvements - occur after turns for the worse.
This does not mean, however, that most turns for the worse lead to turns for the better. Also, as I noted, I believe the current situation is already unstable.
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What do you do- [he studies her for a moment] -Miss Frost? Here, I mean. You seem to know a lot about this place and its workings.
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She considers the boy. "I can't very well ask what a new arrival does here, as you won't know yet, but I'm curious who you are, Draco Malfoy, besides a name."
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And I'm sure you'll find out who I am soon enough.
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[And she raises an eyebrow partly in return and partly at that confidence.]
Until then, Draco Malfoy. [She reaches for the switch but deliberately allows enough time for him to respond, say farewell, ask her not to go, ask another question, whatever..]
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