"Once upon a time there was a girl and her brother," Wanda began as she kicked back the drink again. It stung its way down his throat. Satisfactory. "And they were all each other had. To protect their country, they volunteered for experiments that would give them strange powers. The siblings fell in league with someone who promised to make the world a better place but it was a lie and, eventually, they had to help others destroy him."
The abbreviated version, surely, but that would suffice for now. As she finished her story, Wanda reached back and tucked some of her dark hair behind one ear. "There, now you know some of my demons." She offered Mitchell a smile paired with a single chuckle as she lifted the glass toward him. "Na zdravie."