“But I bet I'm the best one to suggest it," she said with a smirk. A very over confident and self-gratifying one. ""Just slightly practiced, of course. You know, he probably exists somewhere." If this world plus the other worlds and times she'd been to had taught her anything at all it was that everyone probably existed somewhere. Someone's fiction or whatever was real in some universe out there. Probably multiple versions actually.

In some ways he should probably feel honored, Illyana rarely bothered to call people out or put in the effort to point things out to them. It was only when she actually cared, or at the very least wanted something out of the situation, that she put in the effort to be blunt and direct. In this instance it was decidedly that she cared and she wanted him to know how ridiculous he was being. Not just that she cared of course, she had a vested interest in dissuading people from making stupid statements and decisions that reminded her of her self-sacrificing brother.


"I'll take your silence to mean my point was made and accepted as correct." She narrowed her eyes at what he chose to say next. "Because it is." It was foolish, sentimental, selfish, and also weak. Definitely weak. "I don't really have a place here. Not really. I don't belong places." I'm not even meant to be.