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Plopping down beside him, Molly made a face that lingered for a while, one wide eyed and a little disgusted but also curious and mesmerized. "Ew," she said, her mouth agape as she rested her chin in her hand. "So why do you gotta do that?" "Same reason anyone does, if they don't get a bone set. Mine just moves so fast that if I'm not trying to heal a bunch of stuff, I either gotta sprint right to the infirmary, or fix it myself, or deal with double pain. You. Okay, not ... you." Kyle pointed to Molly with his good hand. "But people who can actually get hurt." He grinned. "Same thing, only it's most people have a couple days. I've got a couple hours." "Or else it heals up wrong?" Molly said, wincing. "That sucks." She tilted her head, then added awkwardly. "Do you uh....need any help now? I can um...hold bones or something?" "Nah, it's just my hand." He showed Molly the hand, the bruising was already going purple and would clear to greenish yellow probably before he was done his post-Danger Room shower. "Anything bigger, yeah, help is nice, cause doing it myself, sometimes I just can't make myself hurt that much. I hadda set my own jaw once, that was super gross." "Oof," Molly said with a laugh. "I am so glad I haven't had lunch cause I did not think we were gonna be talking today. How'd that happen? Did you fight a bear or something?" "Nah, I had to fight Toad, I was totally outmatched so I talked him into being super pissed off so he'd leave himself open. He kicked me in the face, but I kicked him in the knee. I can fight with a broken jaw, but you can't fight with a busted knee." Kyle said, grinning. "I threw up like. Everything I'd eaten that day." "Who's Toad again?" Molly said thoughtfully. "Please tell me he looks like a toad." "One of Magneto's fuckoffs. Crazy muscular legs, long ass tongue, kinda yellow green. He's like. I mean he's about as much a toad as, I dunno, I am a fox? I saw him eat a bug though." Kyle answered - lied, really, he had never seen Toad eat a bug, he just wanted to dunk on the guy. Molly squinted. "Wait--is he one of the dudes from the battle scenarios? Get outta town!" she said, whacking Kyle against the arm with a big laugh. "He's real? I thought somebody just made him up from a movie or something. I TOTALLY gotta meet him!" She shrugged. "I uh...kinda forgot some of the names of the people we fight in the scenarios so I just make up names for them since I'm too embarrassed to ask." "Well, some of 'em aren't real. " Kyle said, shrugging. "But I mean, see what you do is, you make up really insulting names for them, and then if they are real, you just use those. I mean, yeah, Toad's feelings are gonna get hurt if you call him Sad Koopa but I mean, he's evil. Hurt his feelings." Molly started mad giggling. "Sad Koopa. Oh My God, I'm stealing that," she said, bowling over to lay on her side from where they were sitting. "I have like ten names for Loki. Such a jerkwad." "Yo, I haven't even." Kyle started, then shook out his hand. "Oh man, pins and needles. Anyway. I haven't even met that dude and I have at least two. Even if I never use them, it's good to have them in my head. I mean, take people seriously, Toad broke my jaw, but also like. Sometimes having a good insult in reserve gives you that like, second for them to be too mad to remember to duck or something." Molly grinned. "Exactly. Plus it's fun." "And man, sometimes in this world, you gotta just tell a guy he hair is booger colored." Kyle agreed. "Toad's hair is totes booger colored."
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