Uhhhh, counting you? Two. Ditto on the whole not boring to tears thing.
[The books aren't anything particularly exciting, just physical representations of stuff he knows. Some are more stuffy titles like "Latin" or "anti-gravity floats", but others have titles that are more bizarre like "how to kill people (with adamantium claws)". A few have what are presumably the names of people he knows: "Eye-Boy," "Broo," "Idie" among them. If she looks around she may even see a "Summers" in there that she might recognize.
He waves a hand casually at the window and adjusts his glasses.]
The thing that did that, we call it the Phoenix Force. There was someone [There's baggage behind that "someone". But explaining Jean Grey will take way too long, give him way too much of a headache, and Jinx probably wouldn't be interested anyway.] who was gonna be one of its hosts, like me. I wanted to show her how screwed she was.
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[The books aren't anything particularly exciting, just physical representations of stuff he knows. Some are more stuffy titles like "Latin" or "anti-gravity floats", but others have titles that are more bizarre like "how to kill people (with adamantium claws)". A few have what are presumably the names of people he knows: "Eye-Boy," "Broo," "Idie" among them. If she looks around she may even see a "Summers" in there that she might recognize.
He waves a hand casually at the window and adjusts his glasses.]
The thing that did that, we call it the Phoenix Force. There was someone [There's baggage behind that "someone". But explaining Jean Grey will take way too long, give him way too much of a headache, and Jinx probably wouldn't be interested anyway.] who was gonna be one of its hosts, like me. I wanted to show her how screwed she was.