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Dear Ms. Jenkins,

There is no easy way to deliver tragic news, so I'll be direct. Your daughter, Laurie Jenkins, was tragically killed in a horrific terrorist attack upon Xavier's School for the Gifted. As some of the victims are still comatose and unstable, we do not know what the final toll from the attack will be, but the loss of even a single life is far more than any of us, and especially the families should have to bear. With so much of the faculty and others injured or worse, I have volunteered to take on the sad duty of passing on the news.
I know in the near future there will be a lot of questions. Was there anything any of us could have done to prevent this tragedy from happening? Why Laurie? Who could have been so callous as to have killed a child? I do not have all the answers, but will do my very best to answer some of the questions that follow a tragedy. There were security measures. The terrorists who did this were sophisticated and their actions pre-meditated. They removed all security measures and disabled the people best suited to protecting others or stopping their actions. In the wake of these times, I wish we could have done more for the security of everyone harmed, but as a school first, I still question what we might have done that would not have compromised the attempts at openness to people who have nowhere else to go, like Laurie, upon discovering her mutant gifts. We do not know if she was intentionally targeted, or in the wrong place. The breadth of the attacks ensured there was nowhere safe, however. And I promise you, we are doing everything in our abilities to bring the attackers to justice, though I know all such efforts come too late to be any comfort.
Your daughter was shy, but in recent times I believe she had begun to find a home at Xavier's, and some happiness. She and her roommate had become quite close, only recently, she had come out of her shell enough to volunteer for the welcoming committee for new prospective students. She was learning to accept her gifts, and her recent efforts in classes and commentary to friends suggested she was considering trying to eventually join the X-Men, and dedicate herself to helping children like her who were lost and confused, with few options, in a world where sometimes just being a teen is hard enough, and being a mutant teen adds an impossible layer of difficulty.
In a way, hard as it is to see or accept now, she succeeded. As impossible as it must be to be "the" parent who has to hear the news no parent should ever have to face, I hope it may be some comfort, eventually, that had it not been your daughter who faced down one of the terrorists, it would have been another child. There is no question in my mind that she saved at least one life, and we cannot be certain how many others. There is no fairness in a child dying before her time, but in my mind, and others, she died bravely, and a hero, and among friends who loved her.
Ms. Jenkins, my name is Lucas Moonstar. I am a student at Xavier's school. I asked the remaining faculty for permission to be the one to deliver the news, in the wake of a tragedy we are all still reeling from. I have also asked for permission to fly to your hometown to deliver your daughter's effects, and spend a few days there helping you in any way I can to understand what has happened, answer any questions I possibly can, and to assist with putting things in order, as well as bringing your daughter's personal effects home. I wanted to make sure this was acceptable to you before taking the trip, and wanted to know if her roommate might be permitted to join me. No other student here was as close to your daughter as Lilly Daniels, your daughter's roommate, and I'm certain she would wish to help out, and get to know the woman who gave her the gift of getting to know your daughter.
Please accept my deepest condolences on your loss, on behalf of myself and everyone at Xavier's. Nothing can possibly approach the loss you must feel, but know that she was loved dearly here, and everyone is feeling the loss of one of our own. Please let me know if myself, and possibly Lilly would be able to visit to help in any way we can, and tell me if there is anything I can possibly do for you.

With sadness,
Lucas Moonstar