"... oh." Nope. Sometimes it doesn't matter at all that he knows he wasn't the person who coaxed Toro to a Christmas dance and then pushed him into the girl he liked. News like this? Still feel like a punch in the gut. The kind that hurts. "This Mad Thinker character seems to have merited some... attention. Both for Toro's and Jim Hammond's sakes. Was he stopped?"

As to the offer... "I... probably should catch up with the reading. You wouldn't believe the degree of information control was exercised back there, and I was only out of stasis for short periods of time." Beat. "Although I'm sure missing Namor's cheerful reaction to remembering who he is... well, I wouldn't change that part. Unless I got a good seat at a very safe distance."