[Her expression softens. Being the queen was all well and good but she can imagine being alone and scared when they first manifested, or hurting someone with them, like most young mutants did. Monet herself wouldn't admit to being scared, or alone, but it still wasn't easy to wake up one day and find out you had super-strength and telepathy and super-hearing and god knows what else all at once. She'd learnt to control it, but the memory was always there.]
[Instead of replying directly, she stands, hovers in mid-air, and walks over to Elsa's side, keeping the distance a stranger would, and mirrors Elsa's smile.]
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[Instead of replying directly, she stands, hovers in mid-air, and walks over to Elsa's side, keeping the distance a stranger would, and mirrors Elsa's smile.]
So have I.
[A beat.]
Is it only the ice, or water, as well?