[hr][hr][center][h3][b][color=cc33ff]Guin Stark[/color][/b][/h3][img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/2c7919d1c6222c4f923a38e3e509c948/tumblr_inline_odikgj8J1Y1rifr4k_250.gif[/img][hr][b][color=cc33ff]Location:[/color][/b] the Mall!  
[b][color=cc33ff]Skills:[/color][/b] N/A
[url=https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/540051583430295574/1072030188843577394/IMG_6201.jpg]~Fit Check~[/url] [hr][hr][/center]	Guin raised an eyebrow, reading the text that had come back from Mary. With the additional context Pietro had given (since honestly, if Guin remembered every person who was a bit weird around her, she wouldn't have much space in her brain to remember much else), it seemed like pretty much everyone had a negative opinion of this guy overall. [color=cc33ff]"That... vaguely rings a bell, I think,"[/color] Guin said. She couldn't really remember what Max looked like, but she [i]did[/i] remember being moderately annoyed about things. It felt like a lifetime ago that they had been trapped inside Wanda's poisoned House of M reality, and while they had been there, Max hadn't been at the top of Guin's mind. 

	Meeting her murdered grandparents had probably been the highlight; but the memory that inevitably crawled to the surface, that she saw sometimes in her nightmares, was the murders Pietro committed gladly. While she loved him, she knew that there was a darkness to him, a madness that was lurking just beneath the surface, even here and now in this mildly depressing ghost of a mall. 

	She took a breath for a moment, reminding herself to focus on the present moment and not dwell on the nightmares of the past. [color=cc33ff]"Mare says he might be there to, like, join the team. Which I guess we have an opening for another magic person with Runa back on Asgard and all. But the weird thing is, he knows Ed but Ed doesn't know him?"[/color] Guin reiterated. [color=cc33ff]"So knowing how things tend to go with us, that's going to turn out to be some sort of fucking huge ass problem,"[/color] she said with a sigh. 

	Guin then quickly shot off another text - 

[hider=@Mary][color=cc33ff]Lmao wtf. Maybe Ed was replaced with a skrull briefly or something? Or maybe Ed was besties with him in Wanda's world? Idk. But I'm betting it means trouble. We never get a fucking day off, ugh.[/color][/hider][hr][hr][center][h3][b][color=12ABB0]Neil Spellman[/color]
[img]https://media.tenor.com/0pSkAq26A4YAAAAM/smile-handsome.gif[/img][/b][/h3][hr][b][color=12ABB0]Location:[/color][/b] the Mansion
[b][color=12ABB0]Skills:[/color][/b] N/A
[url=https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/540051583430295574/1073121327063498852/celebrity-style-style-timeline-2008-04-stsl05_itboy0803.png]~Fit Check~[/url][hr][hr][/center]	Neil didn't really know what to make of Max spontaneously hugging Ed, acting like the two of them were long lost friends. At first, he figured that maybe Max had known Ed when Ed was a small boy, given that he suspected Max might have been far older than he appeared. Instead, Max explained that his magic sometimes caused him to experience vivid premonitions, ones that he could confuse for reality at times. While others might've been suspicious of that explanation, it sounded perfectly reasonable to Neil. [color=12ABB0]"I have a great uncle who has that - or had,"[/color] Neil offered. [color=12ABB0]"He died in a car crash... The visions never had convenient timing from what I was told."[/color] He stared at Max, wondering if he'd go into a trance when a sentinel attacked or something, and give him a similar fate to Augustus Spellman. 

	His shyness didn't prevent him from all social interactions - and Max, as weird as he was, had a comforting presence to him. Neil had no intentions on talking about his curse or his family to him, but there was a playful, almost stupid chaos to Max's aura that felt safe. Of-All, one of the newer mutants on the team who Neil didn't know very well yet, seemed to Neil like she might've had a crush on Max. She struck him as somewhat giddy to hand Max a bottle of sparkling water. 

	He was curious about the answer to Bethany's question - if this newcomer was here to join the team, or maybe he was supposed to be a teacher? Maybe Xavier had decided to have a formal magic program now, with more mutants popping up with connections to the occult. Neil was fairly certain that Edus would've refused to teach the class had Xavier asked - and despite his family being comprised of Satanic witches and wizards, Neil knew very little magic himself. He was the normal one of the family.