Many in X-Factor place their loyalty in love of country. Mine is obviously not there. My country is far from here, an ache in the back of my throat; the closest I get to it is an image out of memory, wavering at the corners of my vision like a heat vision mirage ( Read more... )

( 'Well, I suppose boat parties are a bad idea.' (Adam et al.) )

( 'Take /responsibility/, agents.' (Carpenter [NPC], Zaza, Gabriel, Bailey, Jean-Paul, Madrox, Illyana, Xen, Dante, Alessia) )

Moral outrage ( Read more... )

( 'If I ask for a drink, will you poison me?' (Silvio (NPC), Hugh (NPC), Jean-Paul, Isabel, Xen, Illyana) )

These are not known figures to me, these men. I spent days in Iran hunting the one. I memorized his features from a picture, I composed a mental image and focused on it ( Read more... )

( 'Or we could just take them in, CIA wishes be damned.' (Terry, Xen, Alessia) )

( '{Thank you so much for your immense cooperation, Mister Rossi.}' (Alessia, Terry, Xen) )

( 'You lose that, you die.' (Isabel, Remy, Harrison, Dante, Xen, Mickey, Jean-Paul) )

( 'Thank God it's Friday.' (Nick, Kelsey, Xen, Jean-Paul, Alessia, Leon, Illyana) )