[ He watches her hug herself and try to put on a brave face. Gets shades of Jubilee, Kitty, Hisako. Too young to be so hardened. He wonders what happened to her, to create that shell.

Still. They've got shit to figure out, here. ]

What do you mean, used to be a staircase? [ He glances around them. The corridor seems to stretch back a ways -- was it longer than it was when he stepped in? Were those other doors there before? His head thumps queasily. ]

This ain't right.