"Oh. Uh...I guess," conceded Mattie with a cocked eyebrow. She'd been slightly startled by Nick's sudden outburst having not expected the response to be so strong. She hadn't given any appearance of being frightened: that had proven to be counterproductive, so she'd begun to make an effort at hiding gut reactions like that. Bluffing would be a powerful skill to have against other mutants if she managed to develop it enough, so she might as well start practicing now. 

Still, it seemed weird that Nick had responded in the way he had. It wasn't...normal. It wasn't [i]natural[/i], to be so possessive of an attempted  murder weapon. But she pushed this feeling to the back of her mind. It wouldn't help either of them to argue again. 

So she flopped back onto the bed that was for the time being hers, and she wondered what to do. She couldn't possibly just go home and work and train again pretending that everything was business as usual. She saw no way to help the cause that Nick had apparently joined. She had no idea how to even verify that all this information was correct! 

"Am I allowed to go outside...y'know, to take a walk or something?"