"I don't remember making a world. I don't remember you, just - waking up, fifteen years ago, in the mountains. No one's found me since. I don't want to be found."

"Why?"

"It's bad."

She puts a hand on her head.

"Finding me is bad."

"Okay... but why?"

"I don't remember, just that it is."

"...You kind of killed a lot of people right before vanishing."

"I don't remember that!"

"Well, you weren't found, you did all the finding yourself."

"You all were looking for me. That one was using magic." She gestures to Wiccan, frowning.

"Sure, but we didn't show up someplace you were, you showed up someplace we were. We looked, but you found."

The bot reports, "Scarlet Witch may be herself under the influence of some kind of mental effect."

"That seems concerning... What's wrong?"

"She claims not to remember making a world, the people she's talking to, or why exactly she thinks being found is bad."

"Does it seem like amnesia or something bigger?"

"Lorica thinks it's not amnesia simple, but isn't acquainted with Scarlet Witch's baseline personality."

"I think Loki's the only one of us that is..."

"Lorica's worried about trying to talk to the others in front of Scarlet Witch."

"Uh - I don't have international texting set up - " She pulls out a phone, fiddles with the screen. "Reception here's crap, but if weird Lorica-you-me-someone relay works I can text - probably Jet, Hulkling, or Phosphor can get away with checking texts, I bet Wiccan and Loki have her attention - I can turn on roaming and make Loki pay my phone bills? No idea if that works if they don't have roaming on, though... Anyways I can maybe send at least one-way messages to three of them."

"Lorica's not yet sure of anything worth sending under those constraints but if you think it wise defers to your judgment."

"I don't think those three can do - the right sorts of things here that talking to them would help... Especially if she already countered Jet. Though I bet Jet hasn't tried maximum acceleration, yet..."

"I mean worse comes to worse I text the Avengers her location - but only if she looks likely to start a fight."

"So far that does not look likely but Lorica's concerned the effect that's making her certain that being found is bad may make her unpredictable. Lorica's trying to convince her that she was not found, because she approached the group rather than the other way around."

"Maybe an assurance we're not telling anyone where she is? We talk to her, we leave, she vanishes again."

"We're not here to report to anyone on your whereabouts," Lorica tells Scarlet Witch. "Just here to have a conversation and then be on our way."

"Why do you want to talk to me?"

"Right before you vanished, you said 'no more mutants.' It felt like a spell, and then when the alternate world you'd made broke, a lot of mutants were dead, and most of the rest were depowered. Some of the dead were my classmates. Your students."

"We want you to undo that. As much as you can. This time without trying to mind control everyone on the planet into playing nice."

"I'd personally like some closure from that clusterfuck but it's been fifteen years and you don't remember, so, whatever."

She looks horrified.

"I - "

"I did that, didn't I?"

"I - wanted my girls back. Those assholes killed my kids and I wanted them back - "

She starts crying.