"It's blue."
Kurt's ear twitched, but he otherwise ignored the comment.
"Why couldn't they have sent one of the normal looking ones instead?"
His being strange looking was kind of the point. He personally didn't entirely agree with this little publicity stunt that was meant to show that strange looking Mutants could be trusted around children. Mutants, strange looking or otherwise, were as trustworthy or as untrustworthy as the rest of the human population and should be treated accordingly.
He'd been sent because he was strange looking and had experience dealing with both children and public relations thanks to his time in the circus.
"They're just trying to provoke us by sending something that looks like a demon. Don't react, it's what they want."
Kurt grabbed the book he was going to read during his volunteer shift at the daycare that had allowed this little publicity stunt to happen on their grounds and walked inside ignoring the comments and the glares from the parents and the general public who were crowded around. Everyone seemed to be waiting for something to go wrong so they could blast it over every medium of the media ad nauseum. There were no worries on the grounds of the book at least. The Professor had previously selected something relatively bland, apolitical and non-religious that kids were supposedly nuts about, or had been a generation ago.
Eventually, he reached the main playroom of the daycare where people were trying to do the impossible and create order in the chaos caused by close to thirty children between the ages of two and five as they struggled to get all of the children to sit still and be quiet so the "special guest" could read to them.
"Kitty!" a small voice shrieked as something latched onto Kurt's leg, nearly triggering a reflexive teleportation.
Oh great, it was one of those children. The ones who seemed to think he was a giant cat or two-legged dog. Or worse, a mutated monkey.
As it turned out, it wasn't one of those children. The child's shriek of "Kitty" was the cue that all of the other children had been waiting for, and moments after the first cry of "Kitty", The Amazing Nightcrawler, survivor of a hundred battles, was nearly dragged under a deluge of toddlers.
Kurt never got the chance to read the book. He was too busy spending the next two hours keeping small sticky hands away from anything that might be considered inappropriate, gently removing his tail from the hands of youngsters who managed to catch it while he was distracted, and avoiding a cat brush that one of the children had gotten from somewhere. Likely one of the parents who had stopped protesting his presence in order to go "Awww" and start taking pictures of their offspring.
As this was happening, Kurt wondered why it was always him.
Beast never had this problem.