Emma Frost: ..".. Havok.. I have a ghastly image of my face.. like .. a net.. like.. a network of cobwebs.. I am.. always haunted by such images of my face.. of my face.. of a face that is mine that I always wanted to prize as.. beautiful... I am hunted by my own face.. and I always wished my own face to be.. pristine.. and as only a pristine thing it could .. shatter.. just.. shatter.. for my face is made of diamond I believe.."

Havok: ..".. you remind me of my favourite character in Henry James's novels.. Maggie Verver... very much.. emma.. very much.. Colonel Assingham in "The Golden Bowl".. her novel.. he says she'll prove to be a real brick against multiple adversity.. "..

Emma Frost: ..".. Thank you.. Havok.. you understand.. how much comfort it gives me.. myself.. to think of myself as... diamond.."...

Havok: ..".. and I think of myself as a voice.. as sound.. I think of myself in terms of sound.. "..

Emma Frost: ..".. ahh.. diamond and sound .. things of perdurable toughness..."..

Havok: ..".. and of perdurable softness.. of the romance of things silent.. silent diamond and silent sound.. and we are the elements of Nature.. as Nightcrawler has so often noted so well when Nightcrawler thinks.. I think.. of the pagan Greek thought of Thomas Aquinus.. I believe I'm getting Nightcrawler's tutelage accurately.. I'm Greek, by the way.."..

Emma Frost: .."... ahh.. a modern Greek .... and I'm a modern Russian German Italian.. wait.. what the hell am I ... sorry.. sorry.. Havok.."..

Havok: .."... all three ethnicities I think..."

Emma Frost: ..".. yes.. I'm German, Russian and Italian.. a smorgesboard of all three ethnicities and cultures.. I hear the Red Skull is part-Italian.."..

Havok: ..".. ahh.. yes.. your right.. your right.. he recently did make that disclosure public on TV.. you're right.. didn't he.."

Emma Frost: ..".. I always thought the Red Skull and I were both of the same breed of alien species.. like beneath my fair beautiful beige skin.. I'm a demon broiling inside..."

Havok: ..".. I think.. the Red Skull .. very much appreciates your empathy for him.. Emma.. I'm sure you're right.. you understand things about yourself Emma that it's hard for people in general to understand about themselves.. myself.. I always thought their was a mistaken savagery inside myself.. a misdirected, forlorn savagery inside myself.. and that.. I read a quote on the internet.. in a sig.. Violence is the refuge of the incompetent.. and I feel that has defined me all too often.. in terms of my speech.. my actions.. my superpower.."

Emma Frost:  ..".. what?.. Havok.. but you have just described me to myself.."

scene for a future "The Uncanny X-men" comic book written by Scott Snyder-2 ....