Your life will be difficult because of the mark on your throat. It will be to your benefit to find someone to contract with sooner rather than later, to ease things. [ Ororo frowns, knowing how it sounds. ] You can stay with me, or with Logan, but only for a few days at a time unless you sign with either of us. [ Or, you know, with someone else. But she doesn't suggest it - mostly because why wouldn't Jean sign with either of them?

Of course, there's more to things. How punishments work, how they are compelled to things. Or how they can target partners as well, even if they aren't actually involved. The quota. Ororo goes over each thing briefly, with the detachment of going over a mission briefing until she comes to a lull in conversation. They've wandered over to a park that, for all intents and purposes, looks normal enough. ]

... But for nicer things? The people here are not so bad - at least, those who were pulled into this against our wills. Connections with them are easier to make than you might expect. It is easier to manage the unique challenges of this place when you have people to rely on. And you'll find that such people are in abundance here.

[ ... it's the nicest way she has of saying other LIERs are friendly, actually, and are not bad in bed. But she'll never say that aloud. ]