And I did mean to say that there's a few tense-issues (present tense sneaking in where there should be simple past) that mar an otherwise relievingly well-executed story. Uhm... and now I'll actually go and read this chapter.

I like this ^^

Author's Response: I'm very glad you do. :~D

One cigar a bit of rain and a car with a mystery occupant.....doesn’t sound much really, but then again when you write about it all bets are off! Your descriptions are completely off the scale good, an absolutely stunning start...... a slightly harder/deeper read than most fics, very intelligent writing and beautiful to read.
‘And beneath those, so subtle it was overlooked in his triumph of recognizing the others, a fraction of something that in his long and mostly unrecollected years had never touched his airways’. – yet again you nail the end.

A faint interest, a habitual twitch in his groin, a possible vessel in which he might siphon a fraction of his restlessness......She was not a crush, not an obsession—........A slight, half-interest, and nothing more.
She wasn't.
She wasn't.......gotta love his thought process! Bless him, something tells me he may be slightly wrong!

Love this line - ‘a close friend of death but not half so familiar with its sibling grief’,

Oh well, here we go again...........once again you’re doing it too damn well so you leave me no choice...........I’m in x

Author's Response: **YES!!!!** I kinda happy-shouted at the computer screen as I read this, pure and fervent joy. I care very much what you think, so this has me dancing. I wish I could hug you. Thanks very, very, very, very much.

Yes, what did happen to Ororo?

And I am certainly "sufficiently interested" to keep going. These MRA-fics are almost uniformly depressing, yet I read them all avidly. Why is that?

And what are you aiming for, with this extra-surly characterization of Logan? What has made the difference in his life from the way the man is portrayed in movie or comics, where he is at least a little less of a social pariah, and a mite more balanced, with better connections to the world outside the Xmen. This guy seems completely at loose ends ,and I'm wondering: why?

Author's Response: What fun would it be if I told you? What fun would it be if I did have those insightful questions? Thank you. I'm pleased that this story finds you intrigued.

No i don't like football. Put Spongebob on xXx

Author's Response: Yes ma'am, right away boss.

There are many things I liked in this, the primary one being:

"And Logan, a close friend of death but not half so familiar with its sibling grief, wondered bemusedly if four months was the traditional point when the dead were replaced and forgotten."

I have no idea how you come up with these things & piece them together so well. I've given up on trying to make my writing on level with yours. It just won't happen. I don't think anybody can. You've got too much talent and such a nuanced way of delivering these scenes and the words that make them.

Author's Response: It's sad, how unaware you are of your own supreme badassery in writing--though this did make me feel like I was standing on the top of the Empire State Building, beating my chest a la King Kong. Thank you, thank you, thank you for offering me this piece of a good day.