Strangely, Kitty had absolutely no problem with that, so she sat, settled herself against him, and kind of wished she'd been able to do this yesterday. Or Thursday night.

"So, six years ago the X-Men- my old team- ran up against this guy Stryker, who was a mutant-hating evangelist who had a bona fide group of followers who believed that we're abominations and we should all be killed off in God's name," she explained. "He went to prison, earlier this week he was supposedly killed in a plane crash, but he'd actually faked his death. Which I found out when he snatched me in Chicago."