[hr][hr][center][img]https://i.postimg.cc/FKJKRczH/the-gifted-591b350cc9ba7.png[/img][/center][hr][center][@Nallore][@BlueSky44][@Achronum][@Trainerblue192][@Kirah][/center][hr][hr][center][color=f7941d][b]Genosha: August 3rd, 2021 - 10:30 AM [/b][/color][/center][hr][hr][center][h3][b][color=935DB8]Veil[/color] & [color=DBA1DE]Casper[/color] & [color=#DAF7A6]Sunshine[/color][/b][/h3][hr][hr][b]Location:[/b] Various
[b]Skills:[/b] [color=DBA1DE]Mediumship[/color][/center][hr][b]The Green Lagoon...[/b]

	Marrow had gone off to get drinks for everyone from the bar, where Blob was serving up Genosha's finest, leaving Sunshine alone with Echo at the table. Sunshine shrugged when Echo asked if she was old enough to drink. [color=#DAF7A6]"Does it matter?"[/color] she asked him. She hadn't bothered to check if there were any rules against it on Genosha - as far as she knew, the laws were rather limited and lax. Besides, she was an adult. She didn't really care if some long dead humans decided you had to be 21 years old to consume alcohol. 

	Sunshine rolled her eyes as he went on about how sweet and special she was - and to make a point, she punched him in the arm. [color=#DAF7A6]"I'm not [i]nice[/i],"[/color] Sunshine corrected, before sighing and continuing. [color=#DAF7A6]"I just miss them all. They're supposed to be here with us. But they're gone. And we can't do shit about it."[/color] It didn't feel fair to her. Genosha was supposed to be for all mutants, but could that really be true when people like Waverley and Kristina weren't there? When they had died on the land that was supposed to be a paradise, a safe haven for their people?

[b]Hellfire Manor...[/b]

	[color=DBA1DE]"What if it's a garage sale?"[/color] Casper asked James. It was very hard to tell if he was joking in that moment. Casper said the strangest things sometimes and this was definitely one of those moments. Did he know that they wouldn't just keep a bunch of babies in the garage? Or was he making a self-aware joke about his somewhat strange behavior? The world may never know - well, a telepath could probably figure it out. Or James. 

	Purple Mongoose tilted her head, looking at Moneta with slightly squinted eyes, as if she was concentrating really hard on something. "Are you old?" she then asked. 

	Stacy X glanced up, noticing that two newcomers had come inside - Casper and James. Their reputations preceded them, as heroes of Genosha. But Stacy didn't see them as different than any of the other hotshots on the island, especially the ones who were too busy to deal with the orphaned youth of the 198. "Sure, I've got a spot on my dance card," Stacy replied. 

	[color=DBA1DE]"I have a question to start - who are you and this is a more a comment than a question, but I looove the snake skin! Very chic,"[/color] Casper chattered. Stacy X looked vaguely familiar to him, giving him the idea that he might have met her during one of his drunken, high nights. [color=DBA1DE]"Ben, have I met her before?"[/color] Casper asked, before pouting. [color=DBA1DE]"Right, Ben went with Max, so rude,"[/color] he muttered. 

	"We've met, Casper," Stacy X said with a laugh. "I'm sad you don't remember to mind-blowing experience I gave you. Maybe we'll have to do it again sometime."

[b]Outside the Green Lagoon...[/b]

	Magneto was waiting for Andy to come back with Zarina; nothing too interesting was going on there. However, he recognized someone leave the Green Lagoon, noticing that it was the son of one of his former friends, for lack of a better term. [color=FF5733]"Stretch,"[/color] Magneto called out, before walking up to Jack. [color=FF5733]"We haven't been properly introduced, I realize, something I intend to rectify. I was once good friends with your mother."[/color]

[b]Max's Room...[/b]

	Unseen by everyone, Ben had perched on Max's bed, listening to the conversation with interest. He was a ghost - he was used to eavesdropping, learning things that others didn't. But even he hadn't been aware of all of this - that Jack had died and been resurrected by Mister Sinister, or rather, cloned. [i]"That part-time devil, part-time drag queen can bring me back?"[/i] Ben asked. He didn't like Sinister, but whenever Ben had seen him in his Sinister outfit, he was serving face the entire time. 

	Sadly, no one could hear Ben's comments. 

	[color=935DB8]"We don't know how it works - we're not scientists,"[/color] Veil admitted. Max was asking questions that she just didn't know how to answer. Some of them seemed to be more of a philosophical nature, something just ineffable. [color=935DB8]"Jack doesn't want to be involved in any of this, but yeah, we thought this might help with your plans about resurrection. We don't know what the cost is for Sinister's help - or even why he decided to bring Jack back."[/color]

	[i]"You can't trust Sinister. It's literally a deal with the devil,"[/i] Ben cautioned. [i]"He's fucked up so many people, you'd just be giving him power over you he'll use to make you do something nasty."[/i]

	[color=935DB8]"How far are you in making this happen?"[/color] Veil asked Max. [color=935DB8]"Maybe you don't need Sinister's help or maybe talking to him might... help tell you what you're missing. The X-Men have died and come back all the time, but it's usually in one off ways, never something so reproducible and regimented as to be able to be done for all of our people."[/color] She didn't even remember the specifics of how, for example, Jean Grey had come back beyond -Phoenix nonsense-.