lines that make me absolutely insane in hind sight: "maybe there's nothing to find."
like. imagine. you've been tasked with tracking down and acquiring the phoenix for the inner circle. you lose it. you join the x-men under the pretense of assisting them with finding their missing teammates, including the current host of the phoenix. you try and fail on more than one occasion to find said current host.
you cannot go back.
you cannot make a phone call to sebastian shaw and say "hey yeah i might have accidentally killed her." because there is the very real possibility that you're the next one who's going to end up dead if you make that call.
you cannot go back.

















