Erik is grateful for it and doesn't even temper that feeling. It's not that he wants Charles to suffer, but it had seemed so unendingly torturous to put one's self through. Guiding Charles along, he thinks back to the island and being without his powers. "I suppose I shouldn't be surprised you wanted to be without your powers. Where I came from, that island, you didn't have them there. You could walk, too," he says.

"And you seemed happy. I suppose I never understood how you could be, without the thing that made you special, different; better."