"Yeah, ya didn't strike me as a country girl by any means," he nods, sardonically.

"But ya got it. Avengers... 'Earth's mightiest heroes' and all that. I usually run with a crew called the X-Men. Me, Summers, Maddie and a hell of a lot of other people. We did the super-hero thing, but bein' a mutant came first. All kinds o' strife between us and the sapiens. Avengers called, figured I might make a good showin' for my people, high-profile do-goodin' and that."

He lifts his beer again to drown out this next part after he says it.

"When I left, both teams were beating the shit out of each other for stupid-ass reasons."