(Silver Lining)<br/><br/>Snow Frost had been brought to Xavier's through Cerebro, which took on her brainwaves her own belief that she and her dad, Jack Frost...<i>THE</i>Jack Frost... Were mutants, and not the embodiment of winter. Ironic when you think about it, as she took the name Winter Maiden when her powers manifested when she was thirteen. Five years later, and all she had left to really master was 1)Not cause a blizzard when she sneezed, and 2) Get her temper in check. This wasn't to say she still didn't have her bad moments; she did.<br/><br/>For the first two years, Snow's lessons were with her dad, and the lessons were as sporadic as her control. She had one job, at 15: A nice winter storm of twelve inches for Boston and New York. It became the most famous blizzard and dumping in recent memory. Furious, Jack Frost had ground her. The next day Scott showed up at the door, and the rest was history. Snow's errant belief she was a mutant was confirmed, and Frost practically handed her over, telling her she needed a lot more control than he had time and patience for. Unfortunately, the apple didn't fall far from the tree when it came to the temper... And the odd snows in the summer at Xavier's school.<br/><br/>Nightcrawler and a few others had asked her if she was an elf with her ears. Iceman laughed at them, although in reality he might not have meant to, but it caused her to stop idolizing him. Emma, Kitty, and Scott were the only ones outside Xavier to really sit and talk to her. Jean and Logan had their moments. Hank was helpful with her heritage, although she constantly denied the elemental part, considering it started with Jack who was the great-grandson of the only human in the elfin line. That had made him .875 elf. Snow, thanks to Frost's relationship with her elfin mother, was actually more elf than her father: .9375!<br/><br/>Surprisingly, being winter elementals in spite of Snow's mindset, might have had something to do with those tempers not normally found in elves.<br/><br/>Three years, now, Snow aka Winter Maiden, had been at the school and made the great strides expected of her. However, she learned mastery didn't always mean in complete control. Yesterday had been an example of that. She had ranted and raved, even turning slightly purple, for over an hour from the latest news broadcast. Sure it was the same story of some government official sending a known villain after a hero who hadn't registered. She was flinging flurries and wind all over the TV room... So not in control like she normally was.<br/><br/>"You guys seeing this black ice?! When they send villains after heroes, what more proof do you need of corruption?! Register just to be monitored and told you are no longer allowed to do this or that to save lives... Then lives are lost and they bitch and complain and blame the hero who they shackled with rules to begin with! What a snow job! And that's coming from<b>ME</b>, so you know that's saying something!"<br/><br/>That tirade had been yesterday, and Winter Maiden had earned herself a time out by Wolverine, himself, and for good reason.<br/><br/>Now she stood at the door to the Danger Room, waiting for the rest of the X-Crew, and hoping they overlooked her little tirade the day before. She noticed the two guys approaching. "Hey. Line starts here, guess they want us all present first." She gave a friendly smile, showing why she was pretty much the girl next door. "Sorry about the cold front yesterday..." She trailed off, before returning her gaze to the door.