“Magic, of a sort. There was a woman on my planet whose very words could shape reality to her will. She used three words. ‘No more mutants.’ No one knows how many mutants became human at those words. A lot. We were beyond decimated. And a lot of people died because of it. Especially the younger mutants.”

So many lives lay at the feet of the Scarlet Witch. And David has stopped holding her to blame. What was the point? Still, so much has been stripped from him. A magic bullet to get something back in return? He didn’t believe it.

“Must sound sort of fantastic, right? Unbelievable. But humans sort of hate differences. I’ve seen a genocide with minimal bloodshed, where the casualties came after the loss. I wasn’t kidding when I said I understood a bit of what your partner went through.”