Jean Grey had refused from the start. Just because the Sorcerer Supreme wanted to use the Brainwave Amplifier did not mean she would find someone for him.
Professor X normally forbade her from using that device and firmly opposed reading other people's minds at will. Searching for Mutants meant distinguishing the different beta brainwaves among the crowd, which did not involve mind-reading, but finding someone this way was different.
Charles usually seemed easygoing, but when it came to matters of principle, he was extremely serious. If the professor returned from abroad after buying upgrade materials and learned that she had read the memories of every human in the Americas, he would probably kick her out of the X-Men, wouldn't he?
The professor had brought her to the school when she was young. This place was her home, with her boyfriend and adorable students. She could not bear to leave.
But the Sorcerer Supreme had made the matter sound grave, as though Earth would be destroyed if she did not help him find someone called Starbrand.
She felt that such a major matter was not hers to decide, and she was deeply conflicted.
Yet a voice in Jean's heart seemed to be constantly urging her to do it, to experience the joy of entering everyone's minds, to burn all their thoughts to ashes so that new ideas could be reborn amid the flames.
She quickly shook her head, throwing those thoughts out of her mind. Sitting on the sofa, she lifted her teacup to conceal her panic. She did not even notice that she had pressed herself tightly against Wanda's side, earning a startled expression from the Enchantress.
Over the past few years, besides auditory and visual hallucinations, she had often suffered from amnesia or lost time.
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