It is, isn't it? Or it had been, the last time we had been there. [ Ages and ages ago, now. When the school had been renamed in Jean's name, it felt more removed from the rest of the county. But in the old days (goddess, when did she start sounding so old?), when the X-Men weren't public and they could still drive downtown... she felt it, then. ]

The mansion itself was quite opulent, even the first time I was brought there. I was very surprised. But I hadn't realized how well-off the surrounding town was until I explored the rest of New York.

[ She takes a look around them now, at all the green surrounding them as they walk, the chirp of birds and insects that hadn't been around before their time in the labyrinth. ]

It is so quiet here. Compared to all the life in city. [ No traffic. No bright lights, no people hurrying to get to where they must go... ]