Everyone, or almost everyone, that writes Rogue in detail, has to go up against what it must be like in her mind, in her head. And most go down the easy road, using the back story of the Professor helping her directly, or having taught her to help herself. Helped her to 'cage', to 'house', to compartmentalize each new absorption so that she can maintain her core self against all the new information that has come flooding into her mind from the simplest of gestures: skin on skin contact.
THIS was an absolute masterpiece in the flip side of that coin. No easy outs here, no sitting at the feet of the Prof with head on his knee saying ‘make them be quiet’. This was right there, in your face, THIS is what its like to be Rogue. Wonderful job... simply wonderful!

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this truly unique and poetic picture of what it is to be Rogue. My favorite line: "I am a living catalog of the best and worst parts of humanity." Took my breath away. No shit. Amazing. --Wendie

Author's Response: hey, Wendie! thanks for the review and I'm glad you liked it. I really wanted to write something that was a quick one-shot, showing a side of Rogue that I think most writers shy away from or gloss over because it can easily become too complicated and angsty to go into real detail. but rogue is a complicated girl with a complicated mutation. So i had to write this for her. lol