Amethyst was not going to apologize for looking out for herself. She was kind of proud of it, actually. Ever since she stopped having Atlantean bodyguards follow her everywhere she felt dangerously exposed, even within the school's walls. And anyone who walked into a shark attack and did not save themselves first was an idiot.

>>”What do you mean? You or me? That door was more than big enough, Danger room sessions are usually focused on teamwork and yeah, it was fun. A blast even. So sue me.”

"That door was not big enough, not with you jumping around and icing it up. And I don't do teams." Amethyst clarified. She did not give an onyx about why these people had a Danger Room at all. She did not sign up for any of that.

>>”I enjoy working out and pushing myself, part of the appeal of the danger room you can make anything happen. You never wondered what you could do if you have complete control over your environment… lady? And they were merfolk.”

"Princess, actually. I'm the Atlantean ambassador." Amethyst clarified again. She was not going to go into the gorgon-merfolk debate; she already knew that people at the Mansion were weird about the whole gorgon issue, even if it technically fit.

Complete control over her environment. Yeah. She used to have that. It used to be nice.

"I did not sign up to train at all. I just walked in by accident."

Sam scoffed when she said the door wasn’t big enough; he scoffed again when she said she was a princess. That might make sense the way she carried herself but Sam didn’t really believe it. Even if he had gotten younger someone would have mentioned an actually princess in the mansion… also Atlantis. Was that a thing now? He knew about the Amazons. He was told never to go back there again. Apparently he had a hard time escaping.

”King of the north.” Sam said pointing to himself, ”Artic actually but everything is south when you live there.” Yes, he deaged but was highly interested in that show series until the ending and yes. He binged it all.

King trumped princess so maybe she would have to refer him to Majesty if she was going to stick to the royalty thing. Sam just wanted to know what to call her. ”Sorry.” this time the apologize was sincere. ”Mansion has a lot of rooms with weird **** in it. You might need to be more cautious walking into rooms. I mean kids shoot lasers here or burst into flames.” he shrugged then added, ”And if you weren’t wearing such a bulky dress in the first place the door would have held us both.” there he won.

>>”King of the north. Artic actually but everything is south when you live there.”

Amethyst was not going to fall for the same thing twice. A child had already made her believe for a moment that she was also a princess, and this Sam guy, whoever he was, was definitely not royalty. And even Amethyst knew there was no such country as 'the north.'

>>”Sorry. Mansion has a lot of rooms with weird **** in it. You might need to be more cautious walking into rooms. I mean kids shoot lasers here or burst into flames. And if you weren’t wearing such a bulky dress in the first place the door would have held us both.”

He just had to ruin the apology. Amethyst folded her arms, her now-dry dress sleeves fanning out around her.

"So what, running around bare chested is better against combustion?" she challenged him, bracelets clinking "You are a student here too, aren't you? Please tell me you are not faculty."

Sam nodded his head at her first question as if it explained itself. Dresses burned, so did skin but it didn’t erupt. More fabric meant more issues. It was the same thing with capes. Which is why most of his training was shirtless. It just made sense. ”Yes.” he finally added after his thoughts.

”Not a student, not faculty.” Sam said to the second question his arms folding again. he didn’t’ know what he was all he knew was he wanted to train, that and not be the future Sam he saw. He knew his lifestyle wouldn’t grant him a happy ending but that was not how he wanted to live. As a drunk, depressed, and alone. So Sam figured the best way to prevent that was to stay in the danger room till something made sense again.

”Not sure what I am yet, but I know that dresses that nice burn quickly, princess.” he mocked. ”Atlantis… is that an actual thing?” he asked not sure if he should trust anything she said.

>>”Not a student, not faculty. Not sure what I am yet, but I know that dresses that nice burn quickly, princess.”

Not student and not faculty? What the hell was he doing at the school then? Was he another one of those people that snuck in just for fun, like the self-replicating girl? How many people could just walk in and out of this building? "Apparently I should be more concerned about random non-student-non-faculty people walking around here than my dress catching fire." she shot back. "We had different standards in Atlantis."

>>”Atlantis… is that an actual thing?”

"Wha..." that honestly surprised Amethyst "What, you live down here or under a rock or something? How did you miss a whole mutant kingdom rising up from the ocean?"

He shrugged his shoulders; he did miss about ten years of things. Atlantis didn’t ring a bell when he was with Tat. So if he didn’t know about it then he wouldn’t know about it now unless there was a file that was on the flash drive. ”I used to live here, I was a teacher but I lost about ten years.” Sam said summing it up and gesturing to his body. He wasn’t sharing it willingly but knew it threw strangers off.

”If it happened in the last ten years then that was the rock I was hiding under..” Sam said simply enough.

Xavier's made kind of a big deal out of Atlantis. First, they sent the X-men to topple the king, and then started taking the gorgons with all kinds of promises for a better life, and now they were somehow playing diplomacy with touting Princess Amethyst around. With all of that, it was shocking that this guy noticed none of it.

>>”I used to live here, I was a teacher but I lost about ten years. If it happened in the last ten years then that was the rock I was hiding under..”

She blinked, then wrinkled her nose.

"Nice try. There is no way you were a teacher ten years ago. You were a child ten years ago. Unless you are a lot older than you look. Is that a part of your gift?"

Sam shook his head, ”Apparently I was deaged. All the cool kids are doing it now. Where somehow you loose a chunk of your life.” Sam said trying to explain it a bit better.

”hmmmmm… ****” he frowned a bit and then thought about it more. ”That doesn’t make sense either.” Sam folded his arms and looked confused as he was trying to remember what Gawain had told him. ”I was thirty-one a few days ago and a teacher here. I woke up, and I’m eighteen… nineteen?” Sam said not sure. ”Anyway, I don’t know what happened in the last decade. So this is all new to me.”

”Lady, I have a lot of gifts being able to get younger isn’t one of them.” he then added far more confident than he was a second ago.

If this guy was also going to try and pull some elaborate prank on her about being faculty or something, Amethyst was seriously going to get pissed off. People seemed to get ideas about how smart she was, completely unfairly. And Sam had good reason to try and mess with her, because she'd 'ruined' his precious 'training.'

>>”Apparently I was deaged. All the cool kids are doing it now. Where somehow you loose a chunk of your life... That doesn’t make sense either. I was thirty-one a few days ago and a teacher here. I woke up, and I’m eighteen… nineteen?”

Amethyst blinked. Really? This guy, with the shirtless thing and the cockiness, this guy had already been an adult once?... And if something like that was going around, why did no one tell her? The last thing she needed was to wake up seven years old...

"Well, that's just peaches."

>>”Anyway, I don’t know what happened in the last decade. So this is all new to me. Lady, I have a lot of gifts being able to get younger isn’t one of them.”

"Well, charm isn't one either" Amethyst noted, rolling her eyes "Why did no one tell us there is something like that happening? What if it's contagious?"

The icemancer rolled his eyes then shrugged, ”I beg to differ, you probably just don’t recognize it.” he smirked then walked closer to her and stopped when he was close to her.

Putting his hands on his hips showing her the network of scars on his chest, ”Maybe they didn’t want to scare you princess.” he added a little sarcasm to her title. Sam doubted she was a princess but he didn’t know enough about her or Atlantis to argue about her title.

”Sides, I think it would have happened to more people if it was contagious. You don’t look like you got any younger since being in here with me. Also the mansion isn’t full of screaming kids, just half.”

>>”I beg to differ, you probably just don’t recognize it.”

Maybe he had a different idea of what charm was. Maybe in this country it meant being childishly annoying. More importantly, he was a grown man in a teen's body, and he was behaving like it was the other way around.

>>”Maybe they didn’t want to scare you princess. Sides, I think it would have happened to more people if it was contagious. You don’t look like you got any younger since being in here with me. Also the mansion isn’t full of screaming kids, just half.”

She wrinkled her nose. He was not wrong on either count. Maybe it was not airborne? If the curse was in the blood or something, she could be safe. Body fluids did not really work well on her.

"Well, keep doing whatever you are doing then." she said finally, turning towards the door. Just in case it was contagious somehow. "And for the gods' sake, lock the door."