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Crystal glanced back at him, then shook her head. "Because I have no control over my power," she whispered back, "and while they can't bite me, they can and will give myself a case of frostbite." She kept the gloves in one hand; she couldn't lose them, not when she'd need to put them back on later, after they had finished dealing with Gambit. She paused as she saw the Gambit soldiers, and shut herself up, glancing back at Shush. "Silenced?" she asked, mouthing the word rather than whispering it. She couldn't afford to give herself away. Before she might have been able to say she was just camper, but she was probably too deep in Gambit territory for that to work anymore. She stopped to look over the soldiers, hoping to find a place where she might actually be able to use her powers.