She nodded, "yeah... I know that he wasn't the only one." She knew that she wouldn't have to say who she was talking about, nor what she was referring to. Even before all of the abductions, Alex had lost friends. It just seemed to be part of being a mutant. At least, it looked like that from her point of view.
She took another drink, "back home, I was just seeing the world. I was even flirting with the idea of joining a mutant team that wasn't the X-Men. Which actually seemed like a much better idea by that time."