I tentatively knocked at the door to the medilab, then entered. Kurt was looking down at Professor Xavier in sorrow, but his eyes lit up when he saw me. "Ororo!" He gracefully leaped over to me. "I wondered if I would get the chance to see you before you left."

"We talked to Hank," I said hastily, a bit shy around him. How would he react to me now? "He's having us meet him at the Academy."

"Anything else?" His smiling face was too close to mine, but I did not want to move away. I tried to concentrate on breathing.

"He didn't want to say too much. Apparently he and Moonstar worked together to send me those dreams I'd been having. About us." I looked away from him. "I guess we'll learn more there."

"Geliebt Ororo?" He faced me, questions in his eyes. "Why do you turn away? Why did you not come to see me before?"

"I wasn't sure if you wanted to see me." I shifted my weight from left to right. "Seeing how badly everyone else has been affected, I thought perhaps you would find me too much to bear."

He theatrically declaimed, "My lady is always too much to bear! That is why I am glad her winds can do it for me." He winked at a non-existent audience and I, chuckling, took his hand. He turned his attention to me and sobered up. "No, liebchen Ororo. Now that I know how things stand between us, I am overwhelmed with joy."

I swallowed. "The others still have serious problems."

"I know." He put his arm around me. "That is why, instead of asking you to stay and see if the beds are as comfortable as they say," he said, in a bad Groucho Marx voice while he waggled his eyebrows enthusiastically, "I will merely demand a kiss before you go to take care of things. Come back to me soon, mein starker Wind, with good news."

Heat rose to my cheeks through my laughter, but I leaned into him and gave him the kiss he asked for. I relished the feel of his body in my arms, his velvet lips against mine, but pulled away from him far before he or I were ready to stop. "I have to go. I still need to put on my uniform."

He touched my abdomen gently. "Be careful out there for all of us."

"I shall," I promised.

I found the strength to leave him and hurried into a spare uniform from one of the lockers. It was past time to figure out all of this mystery, and to do something about it.