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The the world is the world. The

The New York City.

Once a thriving metropolis, now a dark, dreary, black void.

A monument to the way things were.

Cape Bride didn't grow up here, but in nearby Westchester is where she became a woman.

She'd been known as Kitty then, and became a member of Charles Xavier's school for gifted youngsters.

Finding her place wasn't easy, but she'd soon become one of the X-Men.

That was a lifetime ago.

Now she was trying to find her place in a future Nung could imagine some 30 years later. A future where finding your place

meant fighting to survive. I wish Logan would have picked a save a part of town to meet. But I guess

there isn't a safe part of town these days. He's right. This is the last place the sentos will think to look for us.

Carefully, she leaps over the rubble and takes a shortcut down an alley, only to be stopped in her tracks by three dangerous-looking misfits.

Their very posture betrays their intent.

What are you doing out here, mutie?

Let me through.

I'm on official Sentinel business.

And we hate those tin cans as much as we hate people like you.

You both made the world like this.

Beg all you want.

Or better yet, scream.

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