[ Erik's smile becomes downright fond. Peter is a good lad. If a bit directionless and irreverent. It's the sort of affection Erik would rarely, if ever, express to the boy himself. ] He's hard to forget.

[ Erik shrugs at her assessment of the Savrii. ] It's possible they are extinct. We haven't been able to determine what happened to them. What we do know is that they built Avagi, the space station we're living on. Some of the residents have been here for years, and apparently they used to interact with them. There was some kind of confrontation with this creature they call Mother. She's incredibly powerful, and an enemy of the Savrii. The residents were sent some three hundred years in the future and the station is just barely functional now. I didn't get here until just after that confrontation. Mostly we've been dealing with trying to keep the station from falling apart.

[ He glances at the storm and frowns. That doesn't help, of course. Though he doesn't fixate on it, and looks back to her with a look that almost bashful. ]

Well, you know how it is. I make a phenomenal cockup of everything, you come along to clean it up? [ He pats her hand. And then leaves it there, his thumb stroking across her wrist. ] It's just... difficult to find somebody to talk to. After Charles left the only other mutants were the children. I can't really go to them for counsel. Finding a place among the humans has been... trying.