[If you need to call on me, do. He probably shouldn't have said that, but even if he hadn't, she'd have to do this anyway. The words just make it less intimidating when she composes the message.]
I didn't want to ask for a favor so soon, but it looks like I don't have a choice.
My brother was among the newcomers. He died during the Battle of Sokovia. He doesn't seem aware of that, and I would very much prefer it doesn't come up until the time is right.
[ She's about the last person he expects to hear from - saying something, given the pool of people who know him enough to have reason to reach out is still tiny and she's one of the few who hails from his world - so it takes him a disbelieving moment to match username with message and come up with Wanda.
Then on to processing the message itself. Her brother. Her brother who died. ]
That's not mine to tell. He won't hear it from me.
[ Stephen Strange, on balance of evidence, is surely one of the most likely candidates to end up stumbling into the middle of a multiversal abduction scenario.
But there's no dancing around it. Wanda's dead brother is here, alive. And given everything that's happened... ]
Don't worry. We won't be going down that road again.
[The one that led to Westview, that led to the Darkhold in her possession, and all that followed. Vanessa was the first person she went to, knowing she needed to have someone reassure her she was doing the right thing by not telling Pietro the truth.]
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I didn't want to ask for a favor so soon, but it looks like I don't have a choice.
My brother was among the newcomers. He died during the Battle of Sokovia. He doesn't seem aware of that, and I would very much prefer it doesn't come up until the time is right.
[The time will never be right.]
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Then on to processing the message itself. Her brother. Her brother who died. ]
That's not mine to tell. He won't hear it from me.
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[ Stephen Strange, on balance of evidence, is surely one of the most likely candidates to end up stumbling into the middle of a multiversal abduction scenario.
But there's no dancing around it. Wanda's dead brother is here, alive. And given everything that's happened... ]
Do you have someone you can talk to about this?
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Don't worry. We won't be going down that road again.
[The one that led to Westview, that led to the Darkhold in her possession, and all that followed. Vanessa was the first person she went to, knowing she needed to have someone reassure her she was doing the right thing by not telling Pietro the truth.]