Chapter 9 - M.D.B 9: The Power of Polaris (2/2)
Saint gulped and looked at Colleen silently. He was saying to himself 'Naïve mortal, you know nothing about her powers! You're actually worried about her safety? She could beat dozens of me at a time!'
”Colleen, you worry too much. Lorna is strong, very strong! Ordinary people couldn't hold a candle to her!”
Colleen's face changed, as if telling Saint he's an idiot, and she said: ”You've got me all wrong you genius! She's a mutant. I'm not worried about just her safety; I'm worried about everyone around her!”
Once a mutant is awakened, they would get an immediate insane boost in power. With such changes happening so quickly to her body, it will naturally be different to adapt. And mutants vary in their ability to control themselves.
Saint understood this well, and said: ”Hey, are you worried that she would go out of control and even cause casualties, to be hunted down later by the S.H.I.E.L.D and the Sentinel Services?”
”S.H.I.E.L.D?” Colleen pouted, ”I know of the Sentinel Services, what is S.H.I.E.L.D?” (Translator note: To my knowledge, the Sentinel Services did not make presence in any work that's linked to the MCU directly. I believe the minimum role of mutants makes it a valid choice from the author to make them a more commonly known but less prominent part of this world. Just like Lorna Dane ”Lehnsherr”, the difference in name, description and circumstances could be attributed to their presence in different worlds, just like Quicksilver is present on both Earth 19999 and Earth 10005.)
'Damn it! I slipped up!'
Saint did not think his words through. Unlike the Sentinel Service Department who were working in the daylight, SHIELD was more of a secret organization, the ordinary people should not know of. He didn't know how to answer Colleen, so he just went with giving her the long name: ”Yeah, that's the acronym for Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement Logistics Division!”
”What is this division?” Colleen was surprised, ”You didn't just make this up didn't you?”
”Haha,” Saint smiled and said, ”No it's real; and most people who get the long name ask for the Acronym!”
”Good god! What a weird name!”
Colleen puffed and returned to her main topic that was being forgotten. She said once again: ”Saint! You have to let Lorna live here for as long as possible! I fear for her being alone on the streets!”
'You're not afraid that she would go out of control here, destroying me and my stone?' Saint thought…
He turned a blind eye to that, and even though he was a little reluctant, he just said: ”I'll try my best, but it seems to me that she's almost as stubborn as you are! I can't promise anything!”
'What? The same as me? That's a little bit too many words!'
Colleen also turned a blind eye to Saint's words: ”I'm going back to my Dojo; I'll let you deal with this.
Saint nodded, and after seeing Colleen leave, he found the spare keys and gave them to Lorna: ”These are the keys to the store; the big one if for the front door, and the small one's for the backdoor. After you're through with work, remember to lock everything. Tomorrow we start at 11.30 am, don't wake up late!”
Disregarding the dumbfounded look on Lorna's face, Saint went straight up the stairs to the living room on the second floor, which was not ready for Lorna at all! If Colleen didn't go before he thought of it, he might have asked her to help him out.
”That's… weird…”
Lorna watched Saint's back disappear at the stairs, and could not help but ask: ”Isn't he afraid that I would steal anything?”
With theft being on her record, Lorna was used to peoples' suspicions. Even if they don't say anything, they are always worried about that! Saint left hundreds of dollars in the cash register, but he did not seem to worry at all, and even gave her keys to the store!