Oh, right. He should have led with that. "Time pauses," he replies. "When you go back, it will feel like nothing here happened at all. You'll resume life as normal. We defeated Apocalypse," he says. "You'll just have to relive it, but... he holed you up in a torn-down building, and you were going to die."

He swallows hard. "I almost let him kill you. I thought about it for one second, you were a sacrifice that needed to be made. But... I couldn't let him. As far as I know, you went toe-to-toe with him in your mind, and then Jean stepped in. She was really the deciding blow; the rest of us were just there to hold him off.

"He's been completely incinerated. You will be fine."