He is absolutely that. He has a very impressive gift for learning.

[A mutated gift, but that was also something that was his place to share. She remembered that preference of the mutants. So she'd let Prodigy say it when and if he wished to say it. They could be very cagey, and unlike Kurt, he had choices he could make on if and when.]

I'm glad that you'll have a partner for that. I can't quite match the way I used to, though I can still fence with the best of them and I've gotten quite good on the firing range in my time here.

Oooh, can we do that now? [She liked the idea of not simply talking, but doing something.] Yes, let's. It will be a dessert for the evening, yes?