p data-p-id="5c581a3a289dc63e9afcc6ab3ca2f7a1"strongStrange stumbles through a portal and into a hallway. A nurse walks up to him and asks if she can help./strong/p
p data-p-id="a2136ffd19595ad6a3986818170f2705"strongStrange asks if she knows where Christine is. Christine finds him./strong/p
p data-p-id="f9488c514bc35293eeb6ee0f4c9faeaf"strongStrange tells her to get him to an operating room and not to bring anyone else./strong/p
p data-p-id="fcde0788bbc776caa14eddabf27b54f8"strongThey walk into a room. Christine asks what happened./strong/p
p data-p-id="a4a8a3bfe6d020c3fb852127d77c1ba0""Just a stab wound." Strange said./p
p data-p-id="546eb77d01e5b458dc2435c503c83c45"strongStrange says he was stabbed and the wound is over his cardiac tamponade. Christine gets him onto the table and asks him what he's wearing./strong/p
p data-p-id="873dbe1736f38be83b542fdd68c12231""Very very long story." Strange said./p
p data-p-id="b78818b5b4a160ce0a162ff9da1071b0"strongChristine opens his tunic and says that his chest cavity is clear./strong/p
p data-p-id="0dd9c66725114dfdcb0a1c2c4f817615"strongStrange says the blood is in the pericardial sac. His hand falls limp beside him./strong/p
p data-p-id="d5f25cf09926771a92bfcec52469eeea""Oh no."/p
p data-p-id="28aae2fdae7966c26f0f35677bc9f9af"strongChristine panics and hooks him up to a heart rate monitor. Stranges Astral form comes out of his physical body. Christine goes to inject him, Stephen tells her to go a little higher. Christine screams./strong/p
p data-p-id="3e422fe8373d1fdd67e62471b3588882""Yeah, I can imagine that that would be terrifying." Tony said./p
p data-p-id="218357d0731d7beeca6ce815e90770de"strongStrange tells her to be careful with the needle./strong/p
p data-p-id="49130f59ed2cf3fafd4841f17da979af"strongChristine asks what she's seeing./strong/p
p data-p-id="32970cde00a0f433d2a470bd595e06b1"strongStrange says it's his astral body./strong/p
p data-p-id="d55bbdfe220e1b399486242a6a693b02"strongChristine asks if he's dead./strong/p
p data-p-id="7cf57172be18eaab45811df51011936f""Not yet."/p
p data-p-id="982c3cc05e571381cac2355ad7e44a44"strongStrange says he isn't dead but he's dying and points to where she should inject him./strong/p
p data-p-id="8bfc95ae643d45c7f0f6352041848217"strongChristine injects him and says she's never seen a would like it./strong/p
p data-p-id="9ef42e063f51b12cd811c58607d32fc4""Because it's not your typical stab wound." Strange said./p
p data-p-id="7205e6de934123a6d2becf95087e5d8d"strongChristine asks what he was stabbed with. Strange says he doesn't know./strong/p
p data-p-id="9c87447ba0161db35c32cdee6e10270b"strongThe zealot is still being smothered with the cloak, his astral body comes out of his physical body and he goes through the portal Strange left./strong/p
p data-p-id="9f815f1c712c6439d6f59756f4e684ab""Son of a bitch."/p
p data-p-id="0e3da8403c0597cf5dd5366c8fd59482"strongThe zealot finds Strange and Christine. Strange tells her that he's going to have to vanish and tells her to keep him alive. Strange vanishes. Christine looks around, wary./strong/p
p data-p-id="d0ec8cb225905098a0698cd8d2dd4321""I feel bad, she's probably so confused." Ned said./p
p data-p-id="16e60c608cc6f48a13ca8f181e6685ea"strongStrange punches the zealot, then they start fighting. The zealot throws Strange through a wall. Strange comes back and the zealot throws him into a cabinet. They start fighting on top of Stranges body./strong/p
p data-p-id="ffee3a5ed3c0421d553c2d0be54911b4"A few people snickered at the location./p
p data-p-id="6aafe8545d6978ad54eda1aa4170493a"strongThey roll through Christine and she gets pushed back a little. They take their fight elsewhere./strong/p
p data-p-id="f826c9952a401025f3503b3336bc4d7b"strongDr. West is buying something at a vending machine. Strange and the zealot fly through the vending machine and knock down more snacks./strong/p
p data-p-id="8dec076d29d6b4683089daa31e8d629b""You just made that man's day." Peter said./p
p data-p-id="62d8190fef41de25cd2aa2141c925fa4"strongThe zealot kicks Strange back into the room and starts kicking him. Strange flatlines./strong/p
p data-p-id="eb20fc30cd4bd9f9d84fa4aef9d125e1""Oh no."/p
p data-p-id="adfebfa482afcf57edf9a8c0a07d7a7d"strongChristine grabs a crash cart and uses it on Strange. Energy emerges from Strange's astral form and blows the zealot away/strong/p
p data-p-id="a1b73ca09dcf667a3a334ce8b68126b9"strongStrange appears in front of Christine. She tells him to stop doing that./strong/p
p data-p-id="fc6276130f0b0fb3a4cbdab89993fe66"strongStrange tells her to up the voltage and hit him again./strong/p
p data-p-id="dadc2bf65c15cbe147010ab83f0d649a""But your hearts already beating." Bruce said./p
p data-p-id="3e8fb3e7fa86a867977764fe7b124d0c"strongChristine says his heart is beating. Strange tells her to do it and disappears. Christine does it and Strange's astral form blows up the Zealot's and kills him./strong/p
p data-p-id="ae88785cb8fdce5ecc7a08ec4c5d0f77""That was a pretty good plan." Rocket said./p
p data-p-id="21c071ae2011e1a2efa7f625cc485984""Save for the part where it killed someone." Strange sighed./p
p data-p-id="baffee2f16461b56595a0545c42a5f47"strongStrange gasps awake. Christine asks if he's okay./strong/p
p data-p-id="a707d3ad24fbac3a603240a6f8ef84c1"strongStrange says he is./strong/p
p data-p-id="9e9513e74dcc6b16580d8708f35472e4"strongChristine starts stitching his wound. She says that he just shows up there after all that time and flies out of his body./strong/p
p data-p-id="9c57c3b04cf77f168eabf4e884103786""Must of been a weird experience for her." Pepper said./p
p data-p-id="c4ed1c1eb48c3434305b0c33edd7294e"strongStrange says he knows and tells her that he missed her too and says he wrote her Emails but she never responded./strong/p
p data-p-id="2ab1c139204467c578d15be1dde99e64""Can you really blame her after what happened the last time the two of you talked?" Hope asked./p
p data-p-id="8a52cfac560e26a8ef0f4ae923f68056"strongChristine asks why she would./strong/p
p data-p-id="2ebf069cae2d4d64bab321f42d12f054"strongStrange apologizes to her and says she was right. He says he was an asshole and treated her horribly and she deserved so much more./strong/p
p data-p-id="2b4857cecfba365fa01ce559eb75b97f"Everyone smiled, at least he was owning up to his mistakes. That was a start./p
p data-p-id="a748f2a59a6ccae56d09b965353b61c1"strongChristine tells him to stop and says he's in shock and asks what's happening and where he's been./strong/p
p data-p-id="d122e10121d085483dd2d8fdc376b986""Kamar-Taj."/p
p data-p-id="87ea2b8c610c667e970bb26c58bfb191"strongStrange says after western medicine failed him he headed east and ended up in Kathmandu./strong/p
p data-p-id="2e5010830bf49b85d672d04b37c486fe"strongChristine asks if he means like the Bob Seger song./strong/p
p data-p-id="e05956c06cce632e856397dc15ef4252"Everyone laughed./p
p data-p-id="dfb7c44422580dddd0d54a780da3e6ee"strongStrange says it was released in '1975' off of 'a beautiful loser side A'./strong/p
p data-p-id="e57915c03178879b2b2e1f72449cbd38"Everyone rolled their eyes. "Why do you know this?" Quill asked./p
p data-p-id="8e1d5533c9f8d245573b6941b5948ec2""Photographic memory." Strange answered. "It's good for a few things."/p
p data-p-id="117fdfa3e51ebf5f2e8f20e68f601575"strongStrange says he went to Kamar-Taj and talked to the Ancient One./strong/p
p data-p-id="25722c2a1007b3c4fb2696e09eef26e0"strongChristine says he joined a cult./strong/p
p data-p-id="bbc0bd3fa96eb004e9830f695c4d0924""Yeah... I can kind of see how she would see it that way." Peggy said./p
p data-p-id="d78d354fa0f8ae7a34cbb7e7f59320f3"strongStrange says he didn't but they did teach him how to tap into powers he never knew existed./strong/p
p data-p-id="029f99c8ac6d5bfe8a79ea46eea054a1"strongChristine says it sounds like a cult./strong/p
p data-p-id="81742a6b0c4ccd8d4bc021b7c2316feb"strongStrange says it isn't a cult./strong/p
p data-p-id="f0311592058b3ceeef9017af07340fe0"strongChristine says that that's what a cultist would say./strong/p
p data-p-id="97dc180c1bfb8b2b9558586fbaf678b8""She raises an interesting point." Shuri said./p
p data-p-id="e865502159f45ef0b5bb9a07a5e6afa7"strongStrange tries to get up. Christine asks what he's doing./strong/p
p data-p-id="11d4f23a65773f5dfa7c64d77fc28bd5"strongStrange says he's late for a cult meeting./strong/p
p data-p-id="9513e4cf62e1aa774e0a108413970d53"Everyone laughed. Strange just sighed./p
p data-p-id="2b496da12ac834a9e3abc9741733b2fc"strongChristine helps Strange walk and asks where he's going and if he can tell her the truth./strong/p
p data-p-id="b870d44fe3784cdfd0c301ebbe172dbb""Well..."/p
p data-p-id="8a38a0e46c55ce09da4c1d29d3de5123"strongStrange says a powerful sorcerer gave himself over to an ancient entity and he can bend the laws of physics and tried very hard to kill him but he left him chained up in a greenwich village and the quickest way back there is through a dimensional gateway that he opened in the mop coset./strong/p
p data-p-id="3f6d82f8a812f868818981de94339856"strongChristine says its fine if he doesn't tell her./strong/p
p data-p-id="237db43e5760db8c6686c2d34f5e3a74""A truth so crazy that it sounds like a lie." Natasha said./p
p data-p-id="ebea687ad2c1d83ac245de86039a45ff"strongStrange opens the closet where the portal is and they walk in. Strange walks through the portal and says he really does have to go, he closes it. A broom falls over and she screams. /strong/p
p data-p-id="3a5080ae71308ad4c9c700c9084e0c5d"strongStrange checks the pulse of the Zealot on the floor. He stands back up and puts the cloak on. He walks upstairs and notices that Kaecilius is gone./strong/p
p data-p-id="1fbe35cdda88cd3c9cd7a276600afe25""Where did he go?" Rocket asked./p
p data-p-id="8ccf1848cb978b6171f8efbfd8147c16"strongMordo calls Strange's name and asks if he's okay. /strong/p
p data-p-id="6abe48c865a52de3fdf23fdc4a3d4cca""I'd say you look pretty okay for someone who almost died." Peggy said./p
p data-p-id="00db5c951f27c15d45aee65d9b4f5f45"strongStrange says okay is a relative term but he is okay. /strong/p
p data-p-id="206024758a8482f0fa483b1e01d3e581"strongMordo notes that the Cloak of Levitation came to Strange. /strong/p
p data-p-id="a251a9f61646f2dc5751f444b7a5a12f"strongThe Ancient One enters and says that it is no minor feat and it's a fickle thing. /strong/p
p data-p-id="10e50bca1715655dcf36787b5d5e2176""That cloak seems to have more personality than some people I know." Peter said./p
p data-p-id="7095a1eaedd3951417d7d06f07827c2f"strongStrange says he escaped. /strong/p
p data-p-id="7b465a1f2636e294baa89965a002baba"strongThe Ancient One asks if he means Kaecilius. /strong/p
p data-p-id="7599c1ca1167616855a8fb6c6f6968cb"strongStrange confirms and says Kaecilius can fold space and matter at will. /strong/p
p data-p-id="5ecb53c72e904506df3ece76ca8991f5"strongThe Ancient one asks if Kaecilius can fold matter in the real world outside of the mirror dimension./strong/p
p data-p-id="19899f128512696fdb12dfa87dd9d5f9""Is he not supposed to be able to do that?" May asked. /p
p data-p-id="f7dde3d0be5c0dc9427a9554cf52e2cf""He isn't." Strange answered./p
p data-p-id="c7ed52fc9d851c2a99268a33d79de28d"strongThe Ancient One asks how many zealots were there. /strong/p
p data-p-id="2d0986dacc48833bf475c1d8c805323d"strongStrange says there were 2 and he stranded one in the desert. /strong/p
p data-p-id="80ad5720c55a4cb433c42f61335a5bee"strongThe Ancient One asks about the other one. /strong/p
p data-p-id="3e069e917537c58eb9dd152ae1b076d4""About that..."/p
p data-p-id="745f33c57803947ef9593866f47b4fa7"strongStrange says the body is in the hall and master Drumm is in the foyer. /strong/p
p data-p-id="39b249626287beaf47fe260b9779ef1f"strongMordo says Drumm has been taken to Kamar-Taj. /strong/p
p data-p-id="840a706ecb05afe97449915d54632dae"strongThe Ancient One says that the London sanctum has fallen /strong/p
p data-p-id="4a7693ef400e901ef83746812d19474c""Shit." Everyone /strong/p
p data-p-id="cd0544d9ae8e3a1b5cba387bfe692e5a"strongThe Ancient One says only New York and Hong Kong remain to shield them from the dark dimension and says Strange defended the sanctum from attack and it needs another master because its is gone, then calls Strange 'Master Strange.'/strong/p
p data-p-id="0e3433360a1b3c9b17a4f5947aa88646""You're going to protect the sanctum now?" Ned asked./p
p data-p-id="3fd599df807e0981f3e249d7b1449daf"strongStrange says no./strong/p
p data-p-id="f3d22575e22ccf45011704ce57607f16""Wait what?"/p
p data-p-id="dd72c92306ed0cff05bf599fcd917ce3"strongStrange says his name is not Master Strange or Mister Strange, but Doctor Strange and says he swore an oath to do no harm when he became a doctor and he just killed a man and he's not doing that again and he became a doctor to save lives not take them. /strong/p
p data-p-id="884c9e5246d1eceb1db2d85e1e3ea5db""Doesn't always work out like you planned, does it?" Bruce asked. He felt he could relate to Strange in that respect. He became a scientist to help people and instead he turned himself into something that only hurt them./p
p data-p-id="82f3e6cc11e306b103dabb186854bc48""No it does not." Strange said, answering Bruce's question./p
p data-p-id="73e4114a568b61f5ac73b252e6d6320e"strongThe Ancient One tells Strange that he became a doctor to save one life above all the others and that life is his own. /strong/p
p data-p-id="af23d851cd79d1fead71ff726643d5d3"strongStrange asks if she's still seeing through him. /strong/p
p data-p-id="4e3ad9c614fbc8d3e3d4390a82ce962d""She was terrifyingly good at reading people." Strange said./p
p data-p-id="fb48817dfef23b8594faaa2a5273419e"strongThe Ancient One says she's seeing what she always has which is Strange's over inflated ego and says he wants to go back to the delusion that he can control everything including death and says no one can control that not even him. /strong/p
p data-p-id="98f7f0dde12f911b0a970002c0015170""People certainly try to." Gamora said./p
p data-p-id="ccf42bf46d476b30e4b5dc063ec034ef"strongStrange asks if Dormammu can't either and says he offers immortality./strong/p
p data-p-id="a784fe0972d2c52bf091d8482e26ced4"strongThe Ancient One says that it's their fear of death that gives Dormammu life./strong/p
p data-p-id="e55a2a198eb95254bee00d27b6ef75ad""Because if you don't wish to die, you'll make a deal for eternal life." Valkyrie said./p
p data-p-id="0de99cc418d57340772d8ae6a6f0f8f1"strongThe Ancient One says he feeds off it. /strong/p
p data-p-id="bfc1aff8d3912b0ee017d215d5aceb1a"strongStrange asks if it's like how she feeds off him. /strong/p
p data-p-id="09a42c6c82501cf5bb8092b686d9b4f9""Here we go."/p
p data-p-id="e58107b8da03b82ccb451c80c10ff662"strongStrange says she's talking to him about controlling death and says he knows how she does it and says he's seen the missing rituals in the book of Cagliostro. /strong/p
p data-p-id="4af5bd03db4620897689069ee91f8aaf""So that's how she's lived for so long?" Scott asked./p
p data-p-id="ff6655337ef4f425d24a119caa5a4417"strongThe Ancient One says to measure his next words carefully. /strong/p
p data-p-id="ea87f80487301510f0dd76e766e80b70""Is that a threat?" Clint asked./p
p data-p-id="15a89c0b703199d9af94f812f81a1de5"strongStrange asks if its because she might not like them. /strong/p
p data-p-id="5acca07f8aa77361391d47fd4d4542dd"strongThe Ancient one says its because he might not know what he speaks. /strong/p
p data-p-id="a6813d4637f7ae7db77b0ba114bf48a8""It sounds like he does." Howard said./p
p data-p-id="31e64ffea8bbc9d9776f5ac9ece86eab"strongMordo asks what Strange is talking about. /strong/p
p data-p-id="5f8e68410e432dc379dce8e8ce35dcf4"strongStrange says he's talking about the source of the Ancient One's immortality and says she draws power from the Dark Dimension to stay alive./strong/p
p data-p-id="183d79232dcb070919b0c708ab642e61""My only question is 'why.'" Thor said./p
p data-p-id="7b9f960ee217b9353047e53f9cafeac6"strongMordo says that it's not true. /strong/p
p data-p-id="13517d81247a0a2d9f7a87461833b288"strongStrange says he's seen the rituals and worked them out and he knows how she does it. /strong/p
p data-p-id="6c5bbd0d77fb5542102019b6852a7d19"strongThe Ancient One says the Zealots will return when they've regrouped and tells Strange he'll need reinforcements then she leaves. /strong/p
p data-p-id="4730d88873d5d6aeb54ee4e089335485""She's not even going to deny what you said?" Hope asked./p
p data-p-id="154082085e85dd0a97f0a7a1d55d5ef8"strongStrange tells Mordo that The Ancient One isn't who he thinks she is. /strong/p
p data-p-id="9f07b931348f08d3c262013d4feac52c"strongMordo says he doesn't have the right to says that because he doesn't know the weight that rests on her shoulders. /strong/p
p data-p-id="75c7ec74533b792933fdf052ee007eb7"strongStrange says he's right and he doesn't want to know. /strong/p
p data-p-id="87082c798ae89f028783cc8d762966bf""I do now." Strange sighed./p
p data-p-id="cffa46d078c7bf4b7f7e73a7dd16b737"strongMordo calls him a coward. /strong/p
p data-p-id="263bf29ffd70d1a3ad79b237b9e347e8""Lot of accusations going around today." Tony said./p
p data-p-id="1587cc50d7f986e0059f0a62e976c09b"strongStrange asks if it's because he isn't a killer. /strong/p
p data-p-id="7d52f7351279332443e354ecf7792231"strongMordo says the Zealots will snuff them all out and Strange can't muster the strength to snuff them first. /strong/p
p data-p-id="a00ecb05afbe130e02f8d66b83c0cc58"strongStrange asks what Mordo thinks he just did. /strong/p
p data-p-id="313d3e12736ba2293231fcdd49fadf94"strongMordo says he saved his own life and whined about it like a wounded dog./strong/p
p data-p-id="5f154b5dac931bae17a57f9ac9c68bc0""Wow, rude."/p
p data-p-id="105c6481c32e2ac6d925d679cafeae18"strongStrange asks if he would've done it so easily. /strong/p
p data-p-id="049ea3310ef14c7ff4094c29ce1e7272"strongMordo says Strange has no idea of the things he's done and he would do it without hesitation./strong/p
p data-p-id="97fac2282fae72544ad9a65e7f953e0a"Everyone looked at the screed, warily. Now, they were unsure if Mordo was as trustworthy as he seemed./p
p data-p-id="4f735ec2b13ab336eed79198dbd459b6"strongStrange asks if he would still do it of there was another way. /strong/p
p data-p-id="7e5a7d6b89a7e58525859bb67b73c39a"strongMordo says there is no other /strong/p
p data-p-id="a51f2e503208cea1bc4dfa8754ec833b""I wouldn't be too sure about that." Tony said./p
p data-p-id="847e66c26937e81db1097ac3efa7dc33"strongStrange says Mordo lacks imagination. /strong/p
p data-p-id="f20c6425531a274c678aa194a4993f30"strongMordo tells Strange that he lacks a spine. /strong/p
p data-p-id="95aab3ff89e371d4f5b9a52c3d20548e""Do I?" Strange asked./p
p data-p-id="02b57b3075d1994dc010d0c221d51776"strongKaecilius and the Zealots return, Mordo and Strange run to the foyer. /strong/p
p data-p-id="05bca97da676b5129f6e16efeee41324""Great. They're back." Bucky said./p
p data-p-id="36c2ea76eea6f223bb3c9c8379609ba5"strongMordo says they need to end it and fights the zealots then tells Strange to join him. /strong/p
p data-p-id="35ba966190b71f919de626db46eb5dac"strongStrange sends all of them into the mirror dimension/strong/p
p data-p-id="2d6c1706f193596824f10886bb585229""Ha ha. Clever." Wanda said./p
p data-p-id="6e942dc36e681db3b5f1a550c464183b""Actually it wasn't as good of an idea as it seemed." Strange said./p
p data-p-id="83dfb1ba0a615be80374b40afa90ee9c"strongStrange tells Kaecilius he can't affect the real world there and asks him who's laughing now and calls Kaecilius an asshole. /strong/p
p data-p-id="a4793ccf3b8b234d074b26659a5476a0"strongKaecilius says he is./strong/p
p data-p-id="55bdd27bc90ac5d413e08a908b63eceb""What? How?" Happy asked./p
p data-p-id="ad1bc02278463bdb9563a86f24961650"strongKaecilius starts warping the building. Mordo frees himself from the Zealots' hold. Strange runs for the door, Mordo follows. Strange says Kaecilius can't escape because he has the sling ring. /strong/p
p data-p-id="facdecf3da9ece5d8d8cbd265e1ab5a7"strongMordo tells him to run and they run. The intersection gets warped and looks like it's floating./strong/p
p data-p-id="a81c02c8d7c611187b54429e7667d443""Whoa!"/p
p data-p-id="ccc0cf1039d54615e83d7c5b900cc751"strongMordo tells him that the zealots' and Kaecilius' connection to the Dark Dimension has made them more powerful in the mirror dimension. He says they can't affect the real world but they can kill them and Strange's plan wasn't clever but it was suicide. /strong/p
p data-p-id="3a5165fe123b2fcc30e17b7b813fa498""Wish I thought that one through a little more." Strange said./p
p data-p-id="0f67540aeedc95e48947595cf853a32b"strongThe zealots chase them. Strange tries to open a portal. Kaecilius uses magic to make the building fall over. Strange and Mordo fall on to a bus. A man(Stan Lee) Is reading. /strong/p
p data-p-id="384c0bb85c0acab77bb96973a91823b2""Again, there he is." Pepper said./p
p data-p-id="c52d33ba7983e8dff1585b1ee0a13522"strongStrange and Mordo run up the side of a building, Strange tries to open a portal, the zealots chase them. Kaecilius makes the building start wobbling then splits it in two./strong/p
p data-p-id="c327b6dd949956377821d3c5b519d690""Oh god."/p
p data-p-id="55e935d4fd7627f76a38bed2fdf94fa0"strongStrange and Mordo fall. The city starts folding in on itself. Strange and Mordo fall on to another building. Strange says that this was a mistake./strong/p
p data-p-id="db7a65b9472304be7f4a6120eb2f86ae""You think!?" Everyone shouted./p
p data-p-id="6146fd866bc0eccc56d4121db320cb03"strongThe building moves and they fall off and through the city./strong/p
p data-p-id="a03174ad9f9c6d4a1bbc59a0aa5a78b4""Oh no."/p
p data-p-id="4b267806e0aa7e94802b3b8e5df3c0f5"strongThey land on a platform, Strange falls through and the zealots chase him, he falls into the street. Then he and Kaecilius run on opposite sides of the same platform, the run into each other. Kaecilius chokes him and takes back his sling ring./strong/p
p data-p-id="24109a0802c392fdeb5c01ec25e1c536""Damn."/p
p data-p-id="4c05e252a9894ba3798a8779e253a68c"strongKaecilius conjures a magic shard and tries to stab Strange before the platform splits. /strong/p
p data-p-id="6b3c2aa21213ec4ab9e54ac510ee750b"Everyone looked relieved at that./p
p data-p-id="78d94fa3397ed1d6df0c2bff691eceb2"strongThe Ancient One appears and makes a circular platform in the air. /strong/p
p data-p-id="cf5ce0edac20e36e4e8e3a58322bcfb5"Everyone cheered./p
p data-p-id="a165c9b3a9aa168e9dc3fcf5b45a67ef"strongThe patterns in the platform move, Strange and Mordo get moved with them. Mordo realizes that the Ancient One does draw power from the Dark Dimension. /strong/p
p data-p-id="0afbcbbd38d475b6671f7fa3d6252599""Yes, but why?" Mantis asked./p
p data-p-id="a7bf9a0b02d66aba5aea9d7a69195173"strongThe Ancient One looks to Kaecilius. Kaecilius says he came to her broken and in need. He says he trusted her to be his teacher and she fed him lies. /strong/p
p data-p-id="a6f0b103e80bcc2bf1f7fc591741e4e0"strongThe Ancient One says she tried to protect him./strong/p
p data-p-id="8e47f163156ac31b09e8f8b8db376f03""Lying in the name of protecting is lying all the same." Loki said./p
p data-p-id="45ea4dada889dd4b76e1c55d5f07b232"strongKaecilius asks if she tried to protect him from the truth. /strong/p
p data-p-id="22819316aff212829e6e3e7b3850c4d3"strongThe Ancient One says she tried to protect him from himself. /strong/p
p data-p-id="bca13e128a30ae8d44e78d83e468d081"strongKaecilius says he has a new teacher now./strong/p
p data-p-id="04434cd2123d7a22cf4b34cd2d63049b""Dormammu?"/p
p data-p-id="a870c789b5ea3a51aa5311c5de937da6"strongThe Ancient One says Dormammu deceives him and he has no idea what he truly is. She says his eternal life is torment not paradise. /strong/p
p data-p-id="119c7e5f9c4027dbb7fa36fe0727302b"strongKaecilius calls her a liar./strong/p
p data-p-id="dd5dd343d3a0a4d67d2db6cf02526fff""Not a liar." Strange said./p
p data-p-id="d86a415361b7d131ff4de5801d4a87d1"strongKaecilius and the zealots conjure weapons. The Ancient One starts fighting them. Kaecilius makes the platform ripple, The Ancient One sends the ripple back in his direction. /strong/p
p data-p-id="d8c8cc43306f6434498a522e7211e305""Nice."/p
p data-p-id="d958c484afd9db365145d4c013afefb7"strongThe two zealots attack the Ancient One, one of them stabs her. Kaecilius makes a portal and kicks her through it./strong/p
p data-p-id="f3ffd903ae259fb86b026249fd510578""No." Everyone gasped./p
p data-p-id="d5402d8f7b37123feceb1b38cf19c063"strongMordo and Strange jump in after her. The portal closed. The Ancient One falls onto the street. Strange and Mordo run up to her./strong/p
p data-p-id="f46df0fe1bb85ac29824bb74cb2e8f94""Oh my god." May gasped./p
p data-p-id="90e4d80fe2dadb75c6ae2c229b442f50"strongStrange takes the Ancient One to the hospital and calls for Christine. Christine sighs./strong/p
p data-p-id="d043c2367279512c140fac9ab919d82b""She sounds so done with you." Ned said./p
p data-p-id="24e30daa4a6afaf1e1f6192279f32e32""She usually does." Strange said. "She usually is." He added./p
p data-p-id="48128429fbde3def4009a6cdb2f22d59"strongChristine sees what's happening and runs to Strange. Strange says the Ancient One has a stunned myocardium. /strong/p
p data-p-id="f246c473426c1c1b020fd01dd65bfb05"strongChristine asks if it's neurogenic. /strong/p
p data-p-id="d2978f8ffbd6996116d1712ae36b0d6c"strongStrange says it is. They get her into the operating room. Strange gets ready for surgery./strong/p
p data-p-id="676a540be078c005682eb4f3c2baa9ee""You're gonna operate on her?" Everyone asked. /p
p data-p-id="eb177a57d0a794bfb9ecf9dd89bb56c5""Actually, I'm not." Strange said./p
p data-p-id="6780f2eb23c66ca78d5f9888b6731f23"strongStrange picks up a scalpel and his hands shake, he passes it to Dr. West and says they need to relieve the pressure on The Ancient One's brain. The Ancient One flatlines. /strong/p
p data-p-id="9ed871f95fc81ca16fae2cf4ad22eceb""Oh no."/p
p data-p-id="7e9182fb214a4dbe71ff76f7bd6c918b"strongChristine says they're losing her. /strong/p
p data-p-id="c66e13005105e54e2affb9c89236090d"strongStrange says they need to increase her oxygen. /strong/p
p data-p-id="9e168c7842d4baa05cf3229e90e687cc"strongChristine says she needs a crash cart. /strong/p
p data-p-id="532628075bc54b4572987c2749be4f9d"strongA nurse says she has no reflexes and no brain activity./strong/p
p data-p-id="0551df0504162f3abe6158c7706c3cd3""She's dying." Pepper said, sadly./p
p data-p-id="4e70bd690721fdc949ebe22044a33c35"strongStrange's astral form emerges from his body, he follows the Ancient One's out of the room. /strong/p
p data-p-id="ebac304ec19f2b38b818250aedbd8ccd""What is she doing?" Peter asked./p
p data-p-id="d9ea0c493393f958a18473d5932e5cea"strongStrange asks her what she's doing and says she's dying. They get outside. Strange tells her to return to her body because she has no time. /strong/p
p data-p-id="67bb1b34c88989c656fd0593a0df8dc6"strongThe Ancient One says time is relative./strong/p
p data-p-id="1af737ce4e28ff9e4eb356f9cf452cce""True."/p
p data-p-id="5d9805f571310bbad4ed7dd74c54d927"strongThe Ancient One says Strange's body hasn't hit the floor yet. She says she spent many years peering through time and looking at this moment but she can't see past it./strong/p
p data-p-id="ca0ccbca62b448dc5ed8fb6b76d3e4fd""She knew?" Everyone asked./p
p data-p-id="899613c9d484d5e9259a692b149266a6"strongThe Ancient One says she's prevented countless terrible futures and after every one there's always another./strong/p
p data-p-id="19acb164fccfff40d1e2f9c03933f00b""It never stops." Vision said./p
p data-p-id="f653e5206d5affde9e71bf0d53582933"strongThe Ancient One says that all of them lead there but never further. /strong/p
p data-p-id="479ac56edf454590693f8b032356b163"strongStrange realizes that she thinks this is where she dies./strong/p
p data-p-id="f722f7e58f93d493f225797f97b322e0""I'm pretty sure she knows this is where she dies." Maria said./p
p data-p-id="d3febd83f3c5853e87da9449393c208a"strongThe Ancient One asks if he wonders what she sees in his future./strong/p
p data-p-id="fa60cd6e3f29ad8ecb290e1dd4dbcfb4"strongStrange says he doesn't, before backtracking and saying he does. /strong/p
p data-p-id="2ce1f8da49d5c0d485b0f5393afb0184""How could I not?" Strange asked himself./p
p data-p-id="2ece5c3faf2453a8888485e16e907a6c"strongThe Ancient One says she never saw his future only it's possibilities. She says he has such a capacity for goodness and he's always excelled because of his fear of failure not he craved success. /strong/p
p data-p-id="2465f9910f9309cde71272c5adaed5f4""Wow, she is good at reading people." Natasha said./p
p data-p-id="5fd1e6135743571e36f3be4b00fa43ac"strongStrange says it's what made him a great doctor. /strong/p
p data-p-id="9a967637f228dc4c2ea829ab1a34f161"strongThe Ancient One says it's what kept him from greatness. She says arrogance and fear still keep him from learning the simplest and most significant lesson. /strong/p
p data-p-id="e6e32736e202507924fadeac4d60ca6a"strongStrange asks what it is. /strong/p
p data-p-id="1e5314a9a4e98d322c11b3aa9615dbc8"strongThe Ancient One says the lesson is it isn't about him./strong/p
p data-p-id="206a1970520139be2c703ad2d9bed6a6""Rarely is it ever about one single person." T'Challa said./p
p data-p-id="0ddf8d6c19753cd94143974c624444f3"strongThe Ancient One says he asked how she healed Jonathan Pangborn when he first came to her and says she didn't. She says he channels dimensional energy into his own body./strong/p
p data-p-id="73dac3ee04ef876e8498a8e0c274aeeb""So he isn't healed, but he's using his magic to make it look like he is?" Wanda asked. /p
p data-p-id="3745ee863e1f23b44b574c9180ba711c"strongStrange asks if he's using magic to walk. /strong/p
p data-p-id="b2f5c35c36f5cfa676af0b36d4575088"strongThe Ancient One says he does it constantly. /strong/p
p data-p-id="c3e7de3635be2f2f9d8de982c993f0c2""Sounds... tiring." Thor said./p
p data-p-id="9ffff685a9ba61e5a0c22195a3415f15"strongThe Ancient One says Jonathan had a choice and he could either return to his own life or serve something greater than himself. /strong/p
p data-p-id="6c55fe2d473fd7d15fbe936c0af6eefa""And he chose the former." Steve guessed./p
p data-p-id="952ce550fc1ffb8c2624735962172911"strongStrange asks if he could have his hands and his old life back again. /strong/p
p data-p-id="9815a320d772b0073d2a573267d9bd04"strongThe Ancient One says he could but the would would be all the lesser for it./strong/p
p data-p-id="46efc1b04a33e9f9ec7dffb220cb7030""She might be more blunt than Erskine." Clint said./p
p data-p-id="e49eb5ab6b171d655e0c736e1b7af25a"strongThe Ancient One says she hated drawing power from the Dark Dimension, but as he knows sometimes they need to break the rules to serve the greater good. /strong/p
p data-p-id="2435f66f425c13ae2e998d538e9b8ad1"strongStrange says Mordo won't see it that way. /strong/p
p data-p-id="0f92b89322b1d4290e503c6a951defe8""Of course not." Sam said./p
p data-p-id="376a05cc78fae9e4b50d7c119b76bdc2"strongThe Ancient One says Mordo's soul is rigid and unmovable and forged by the fires of his youth. She says he needs Strange's flexibility just as he needs Mordo's strength and they can only stop Dormammu if they do it together. /strong/p
p data-p-id="d28ebc2829cb62ccd3e39f23a0e959db"strongStrange says he isn't ready./strong/p
p data-p-id="17279559aa72f786b93d163a9ff0b0c1""None are." Valkyrie said./p
p data-p-id="111a5531ab7937493d5d02a10cce88b3"strongThe Ancient One says no one ever is and says no one gets to choose their time and death is what gives life meaning./strong/p
p data-p-id="7d157634245d2e4b2afc3a3462b0cc7c""She's right." Sam said. "How can you ever fulfil your life if you have an infinite amount of it?"/p
p data-p-id="ffab8d6bb5ea209763a8f022135a197b"strongThe Ancient One says he'd think that she'd be ready after all that time but she's stretching one moment into a thousand just so she can watch the snow. /strong/p
p data-p-id="935615e8f5290ddbb0d21f7c1c60e6b9""Looks peaceful though." Natasha said./p
p data-p-id="6e89257707094534ec5e36fdf6f7fd1a"strongThe Ancient One's astral form disappears. She's dead. /strong/p
p data-p-id="ddc5aab8e0ebe6eb0c2e77c9652719e5"Strange looked down sadly, tears brimming in his eyes. He was determined not to let them fall./p
p data-p-id="006a2e15753170af385f77e1d76875dd"strongStrange washes his hands./strong/p
p data-p-id="6eb9b5d915306cfd7fb528716713bd68"A few people looked irked that Strange didn't pull his sleeves up to wash his hands but kept it to themselves. /p
p data-p-id="edfbe9b8bf1ab44fbffd49130d63e6db"strongChristine walks in and looks at the Cloak of Levitation./strong/p
p data-p-id="b709beaf471cf1f8fa7fc3c5a9d7f64c""I can only imagine how confused she is by all of this." Carol said./p
p data-p-id="2a8bdf6a9ad519788b1b6e4cea2a7f32"strongShe walks to the sink and washes her hands too. Strange grabs her hand. Christine asks if he's okay. Strange looks at her. Christine says she doesn't understand what's happening. /strong/p
p data-p-id="9ca45d77ffa41299ec79a55a363f349e""Yeah, this is very confusing." Quill said./p
p data-p-id="0657cd4d32010fd2e04a93ed6bc6bb5f"strongStrange says he knows and says he needs to leave now and reminds her that she said losing his hands didn't have to be the end and it could be a beginning. /strong/p
p data-p-id="811591b93753dfda00757de4e38d3933""And this is your new beginning." Pepper said. /p
p data-p-id="84c3e79d3d7bf634009827ea56e7f06b"strongChristine says there are other ways to save lives. Strange says it's a harder way. Christine says it's a weirder way./strong/p
p data-p-id="4324e37fee3d07ee9326b4bb96b8f816""She's not wrong." Shuri said./p
p data-p-id="de36e96267df1a84cc337dc19d3f3430"strongChristine gets called to the ER. Strange says he doesn't want her to go. Christine kisses his cheek then leaves. /strong/p
p data-p-id="5623135ca7a92e6cafef9fdd79121d4d""Aww." Everyone said. /p
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p data-p-id="3edf15f1c048b52c95fd99b9026f028d"strongThe cloak wraps around Strange's shoulders, he straightens the collar. The cloak starts wiping Strange's tears. /strongstrongStrange tells it to stop and it does./strong/p
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p data-p-id="a2136ffd19595ad6a3986818170f2705"strongStrange asks if she knows where Christine is. Christine finds him./strong/p
p data-p-id="f9488c514bc35293eeb6ee0f4c9faeaf"strongStrange tells her to get him to an operating room and not to bring anyone else./strong/p
p data-p-id="fcde0788bbc776caa14eddabf27b54f8"strongThey walk into a room. Christine asks what happened./strong/p
p data-p-id="a4a8a3bfe6d020c3fb852127d77c1ba0""Just a stab wound." Strange said./p
p data-p-id="546eb77d01e5b458dc2435c503c83c45"strongStrange says he was stabbed and the wound is over his cardiac tamponade. Christine gets him onto the table and asks him what he's wearing./strong/p
p data-p-id="873dbe1736f38be83b542fdd68c12231""Very very long story." Strange said./p
p data-p-id="b78818b5b4a160ce0a162ff9da1071b0"strongChristine opens his tunic and says that his chest cavity is clear./strong/p
p data-p-id="0dd9c66725114dfdcb0a1c2c4f817615"strongStrange says the blood is in the pericardial sac. His hand falls limp beside him./strong/p
p data-p-id="d5f25cf09926771a92bfcec52469eeea""Oh no."/p
p data-p-id="28aae2fdae7966c26f0f35677bc9f9af"strongChristine panics and hooks him up to a heart rate monitor. Stranges Astral form comes out of his physical body. Christine goes to inject him, Stephen tells her to go a little higher. Christine screams./strong/p
p data-p-id="3e422fe8373d1fdd67e62471b3588882""Yeah, I can imagine that that would be terrifying." Tony said./p
p data-p-id="218357d0731d7beeca6ce815e90770de"strongStrange tells her to be careful with the needle./strong/p
p data-p-id="49130f59ed2cf3fafd4841f17da979af"strongChristine asks what she's seeing./strong/p
p data-p-id="32970cde00a0f433d2a470bd595e06b1"strongStrange says it's his astral body./strong/p
p data-p-id="d55bbdfe220e1b399486242a6a693b02"strongChristine asks if he's dead./strong/p
p data-p-id="7cf57172be18eaab45811df51011936f""Not yet."/p
p data-p-id="982c3cc05e571381cac2355ad7e44a44"strongStrange says he isn't dead but he's dying and points to where she should inject him./strong/p
p data-p-id="8bfc95ae643d45c7f0f6352041848217"strongChristine injects him and says she's never seen a would like it./strong/p
p data-p-id="9ef42e063f51b12cd811c58607d32fc4""Because it's not your typical stab wound." Strange said./p
p data-p-id="7205e6de934123a6d2becf95087e5d8d"strongChristine asks what he was stabbed with. Strange says he doesn't know./strong/p
p data-p-id="9c87447ba0161db35c32cdee6e10270b"strongThe zealot is still being smothered with the cloak, his astral body comes out of his physical body and he goes through the portal Strange left./strong/p
p data-p-id="9f815f1c712c6439d6f59756f4e684ab""Son of a bitch."/p
p data-p-id="0e3da8403c0597cf5dd5366c8fd59482"strongThe zealot finds Strange and Christine. Strange tells her that he's going to have to vanish and tells her to keep him alive. Strange vanishes. Christine looks around, wary./strong/p
p data-p-id="d0ec8cb225905098a0698cd8d2dd4321""I feel bad, she's probably so confused." Ned said./p
p data-p-id="16e60c608cc6f48a13ca8f181e6685ea"strongStrange punches the zealot, then they start fighting. The zealot throws Strange through a wall. Strange comes back and the zealot throws him into a cabinet. They start fighting on top of Stranges body./strong/p
p data-p-id="ffee3a5ed3c0421d553c2d0be54911b4"A few people snickered at the location./p
p data-p-id="6aafe8545d6978ad54eda1aa4170493a"strongThey roll through Christine and she gets pushed back a little. They take their fight elsewhere./strong/p
p data-p-id="f826c9952a401025f3503b3336bc4d7b"strongDr. West is buying something at a vending machine. Strange and the zealot fly through the vending machine and knock down more snacks./strong/p
p data-p-id="8dec076d29d6b4683089daa31e8d629b""You just made that man's day." Peter said./p
p data-p-id="62d8190fef41de25cd2aa2141c925fa4"strongThe zealot kicks Strange back into the room and starts kicking him. Strange flatlines./strong/p
p data-p-id="eb20fc30cd4bd9f9d84fa4aef9d125e1""Oh no."/p
p data-p-id="adfebfa482afcf57edf9a8c0a07d7a7d"strongChristine grabs a crash cart and uses it on Strange. Energy emerges from Strange's astral form and blows the zealot away/strong/p
p data-p-id="a1b73ca09dcf667a3a334ce8b68126b9"strongStrange appears in front of Christine. She tells him to stop doing that./strong/p
p data-p-id="fc6276130f0b0fb3a4cbdab89993fe66"strongStrange tells her to up the voltage and hit him again./strong/p
p data-p-id="dadc2bf65c15cbe147010ab83f0d649a""But your hearts already beating." Bruce said./p
p data-p-id="3e8fb3e7fa86a867977764fe7b124d0c"strongChristine says his heart is beating. Strange tells her to do it and disappears. Christine does it and Strange's astral form blows up the Zealot's and kills him./strong/p
p data-p-id="ae88785cb8fdce5ecc7a08ec4c5d0f77""That was a pretty good plan." Rocket said./p
p data-p-id="21c071ae2011e1a2efa7f625cc485984""Save for the part where it killed someone." Strange sighed./p
p data-p-id="baffee2f16461b56595a0545c42a5f47"strongStrange gasps awake. Christine asks if he's okay./strong/p
p data-p-id="a707d3ad24fbac3a603240a6f8ef84c1"strongStrange says he is./strong/p
p data-p-id="9e9513e74dcc6b16580d8708f35472e4"strongChristine starts stitching his wound. She says that he just shows up there after all that time and flies out of his body./strong/p
p data-p-id="9c57c3b04cf77f168eabf4e884103786""Must of been a weird experience for her." Pepper said./p
p data-p-id="c4ed1c1eb48c3434305b0c33edd7294e"strongStrange says he knows and tells her that he missed her too and says he wrote her Emails but she never responded./strong/p
p data-p-id="2ab1c139204467c578d15be1dde99e64""Can you really blame her after what happened the last time the two of you talked?" Hope asked./p
p data-p-id="8a52cfac560e26a8ef0f4ae923f68056"strongChristine asks why she would./strong/p
p data-p-id="2ebf069cae2d4d64bab321f42d12f054"strongStrange apologizes to her and says she was right. He says he was an asshole and treated her horribly and she deserved so much more./strong/p
p data-p-id="2b4857cecfba365fa01ce559eb75b97f"Everyone smiled, at least he was owning up to his mistakes. That was a start./p
p data-p-id="a748f2a59a6ccae56d09b965353b61c1"strongChristine tells him to stop and says he's in shock and asks what's happening and where he's been./strong/p
p data-p-id="d122e10121d085483dd2d8fdc376b986""Kamar-Taj."/p
p data-p-id="87ea2b8c610c667e970bb26c58bfb191"strongStrange says after western medicine failed him he headed east and ended up in Kathmandu./strong/p
p data-p-id="2e5010830bf49b85d672d04b37c486fe"strongChristine asks if he means like the Bob Seger song./strong/p
p data-p-id="e05956c06cce632e856397dc15ef4252"Everyone laughed./p
p data-p-id="dfb7c44422580dddd0d54a780da3e6ee"strongStrange says it was released in '1975' off of 'a beautiful loser side A'./strong/p
p data-p-id="e57915c03178879b2b2e1f72449cbd38"Everyone rolled their eyes. "Why do you know this?" Quill asked./p
p data-p-id="8e1d5533c9f8d245573b6941b5948ec2""Photographic memory." Strange answered. "It's good for a few things."/p
p data-p-id="117fdfa3e51ebf5f2e8f20e68f601575"strongStrange says he went to Kamar-Taj and talked to the Ancient One./strong/p
p data-p-id="25722c2a1007b3c4fb2696e09eef26e0"strongChristine says he joined a cult./strong/p
p data-p-id="bbc0bd3fa96eb004e9830f695c4d0924""Yeah... I can kind of see how she would see it that way." Peggy said./p
p data-p-id="d78d354fa0f8ae7a34cbb7e7f59320f3"strongStrange says he didn't but they did teach him how to tap into powers he never knew existed./strong/p
p data-p-id="029f99c8ac6d5bfe8a79ea46eea054a1"strongChristine says it sounds like a cult./strong/p
p data-p-id="81742a6b0c4ccd8d4bc021b7c2316feb"strongStrange says it isn't a cult./strong/p
p data-p-id="f0311592058b3ceeef9017af07340fe0"strongChristine says that that's what a cultist would say./strong/p
p data-p-id="97dc180c1bfb8b2b9558586fbaf678b8""She raises an interesting point." Shuri said./p
p data-p-id="e865502159f45ef0b5bb9a07a5e6afa7"strongStrange tries to get up. Christine asks what he's doing./strong/p
p data-p-id="11d4f23a65773f5dfa7c64d77fc28bd5"strongStrange says he's late for a cult meeting./strong/p
p data-p-id="9513e4cf62e1aa774e0a108413970d53"Everyone laughed. Strange just sighed./p
p data-p-id="2b496da12ac834a9e3abc9741733b2fc"strongChristine helps Strange walk and asks where he's going and if he can tell her the truth./strong/p
p data-p-id="b870d44fe3784cdfd0c301ebbe172dbb""Well..."/p
p data-p-id="8a38a0e46c55ce09da4c1d29d3de5123"strongStrange says a powerful sorcerer gave himself over to an ancient entity and he can bend the laws of physics and tried very hard to kill him but he left him chained up in a greenwich village and the quickest way back there is through a dimensional gateway that he opened in the mop coset./strong/p
p data-p-id="3f6d82f8a812f868818981de94339856"strongChristine says its fine if he doesn't tell her./strong/p
p data-p-id="237db43e5760db8c6686c2d34f5e3a74""A truth so crazy that it sounds like a lie." Natasha said./p
p data-p-id="ebea687ad2c1d83ac245de86039a45ff"strongStrange opens the closet where the portal is and they walk in. Strange walks through the portal and says he really does have to go, he closes it. A broom falls over and she screams. /strong/p
p data-p-id="3a5080ae71308ad4c9c700c9084e0c5d"strongStrange checks the pulse of the Zealot on the floor. He stands back up and puts the cloak on. He walks upstairs and notices that Kaecilius is gone./strong/p
p data-p-id="1fbe35cdda88cd3c9cd7a276600afe25""Where did he go?" Rocket asked./p
p data-p-id="8ccf1848cb978b6171f8efbfd8147c16"strongMordo calls Strange's name and asks if he's okay. /strong/p
p data-p-id="6abe48c865a52de3fdf23fdc4a3d4cca""I'd say you look pretty okay for someone who almost died." Peggy said./p
p data-p-id="00db5c951f27c15d45aee65d9b4f5f45"strongStrange says okay is a relative term but he is okay. /strong/p
p data-p-id="206024758a8482f0fa483b1e01d3e581"strongMordo notes that the Cloak of Levitation came to Strange. /strong/p
p data-p-id="a251a9f61646f2dc5751f444b7a5a12f"strongThe Ancient One enters and says that it is no minor feat and it's a fickle thing. /strong/p
p data-p-id="10e50bca1715655dcf36787b5d5e2176""That cloak seems to have more personality than some people I know." Peter said./p
p data-p-id="7095a1eaedd3951417d7d06f07827c2f"strongStrange says he escaped. /strong/p
p data-p-id="7b465a1f2636e294baa89965a002baba"strongThe Ancient One asks if he means Kaecilius. /strong/p
p data-p-id="7599c1ca1167616855a8fb6c6f6968cb"strongStrange confirms and says Kaecilius can fold space and matter at will. /strong/p
p data-p-id="5ecb53c72e904506df3ece76ca8991f5"strongThe Ancient one asks if Kaecilius can fold matter in the real world outside of the mirror dimension./strong/p
p data-p-id="19899f128512696fdb12dfa87dd9d5f9""Is he not supposed to be able to do that?" May asked. /p
p data-p-id="f7dde3d0be5c0dc9427a9554cf52e2cf""He isn't." Strange answered./p
p data-p-id="c7ed52fc9d851c2a99268a33d79de28d"strongThe Ancient One asks how many zealots were there. /strong/p
p data-p-id="2d0986dacc48833bf475c1d8c805323d"strongStrange says there were 2 and he stranded one in the desert. /strong/p
p data-p-id="80ad5720c55a4cb433c42f61335a5bee"strongThe Ancient One asks about the other one. /strong/p
p data-p-id="3e069e917537c58eb9dd152ae1b076d4""About that..."/p
p data-p-id="745f33c57803947ef9593866f47b4fa7"strongStrange says the body is in the hall and master Drumm is in the foyer. /strong/p
p data-p-id="39b249626287beaf47fe260b9779ef1f"strongMordo says Drumm has been taken to Kamar-Taj. /strong/p
p data-p-id="840a706ecb05afe97449915d54632dae"strongThe Ancient One says that the London sanctum has fallen /strong/p
p data-p-id="4a7693ef400e901ef83746812d19474c""Shit." Everyone /strong/p
p data-p-id="cd0544d9ae8e3a1b5cba387bfe692e5a"strongThe Ancient One says only New York and Hong Kong remain to shield them from the dark dimension and says Strange defended the sanctum from attack and it needs another master because its is gone, then calls Strange 'Master Strange.'/strong/p
p data-p-id="0e3433360a1b3c9b17a4f5947aa88646""You're going to protect the sanctum now?" Ned asked./p
p data-p-id="3fd599df807e0981f3e249d7b1449daf"strongStrange says no./strong/p
p data-p-id="f3d22575e22ccf45011704ce57607f16""Wait what?"/p
p data-p-id="dd72c92306ed0cff05bf599fcd917ce3"strongStrange says his name is not Master Strange or Mister Strange, but Doctor Strange and says he swore an oath to do no harm when he became a doctor and he just killed a man and he's not doing that again and he became a doctor to save lives not take them. /strong/p
p data-p-id="884c9e5246d1eceb1db2d85e1e3ea5db""Doesn't always work out like you planned, does it?" Bruce asked. He felt he could relate to Strange in that respect. He became a scientist to help people and instead he turned himself into something that only hurt them./p
p data-p-id="82f3e6cc11e306b103dabb186854bc48""No it does not." Strange said, answering Bruce's question./p
p data-p-id="73e4114a568b61f5ac73b252e6d6320e"strongThe Ancient One tells Strange that he became a doctor to save one life above all the others and that life is his own. /strong/p
p data-p-id="af23d851cd79d1fead71ff726643d5d3"strongStrange asks if she's still seeing through him. /strong/p
p data-p-id="4e3ad9c614fbc8d3e3d4390a82ce962d""She was terrifyingly good at reading people." Strange said./p
p data-p-id="fb48817dfef23b8594faaa2a5273419e"strongThe Ancient One says she's seeing what she always has which is Strange's over inflated ego and says he wants to go back to the delusion that he can control everything including death and says no one can control that not even him. /strong/p
p data-p-id="98f7f0dde12f911b0a970002c0015170""People certainly try to." Gamora said./p
p data-p-id="ccf42bf46d476b30e4b5dc063ec034ef"strongStrange asks if Dormammu can't either and says he offers immortality./strong/p
p data-p-id="a784fe0972d2c52bf091d8482e26ced4"strongThe Ancient One says that it's their fear of death that gives Dormammu life./strong/p
p data-p-id="e55a2a198eb95254bee00d27b6ef75ad""Because if you don't wish to die, you'll make a deal for eternal life." Valkyrie said./p
p data-p-id="0de99cc418d57340772d8ae6a6f0f8f1"strongThe Ancient One says he feeds off it. /strong/p
p data-p-id="bfc1aff8d3912b0ee017d215d5aceb1a"strongStrange asks if it's like how she feeds off him. /strong/p
p data-p-id="09a42c6c82501cf5bb8092b686d9b4f9""Here we go."/p
p data-p-id="e58107b8da03b82ccb451c80c10ff662"strongStrange says she's talking to him about controlling death and says he knows how she does it and says he's seen the missing rituals in the book of Cagliostro. /strong/p
p data-p-id="4af5bd03db4620897689069ee91f8aaf""So that's how she's lived for so long?" Scott asked./p
p data-p-id="ff6655337ef4f425d24a119caa5a4417"strongThe Ancient One says to measure his next words carefully. /strong/p
p data-p-id="ea87f80487301510f0dd76e766e80b70""Is that a threat?" Clint asked./p
p data-p-id="15a89c0b703199d9af94f812f81a1de5"strongStrange asks if its because she might not like them. /strong/p
p data-p-id="5acca07f8aa77361391d47fd4d4542dd"strongThe Ancient one says its because he might not know what he speaks. /strong/p
p data-p-id="a6813d4637f7ae7db77b0ba114bf48a8""It sounds like he does." Howard said./p
p data-p-id="31e64ffea8bbc9d9776f5ac9ece86eab"strongMordo asks what Strange is talking about. /strong/p
p data-p-id="5f8e68410e432dc379dce8e8ce35dcf4"strongStrange says he's talking about the source of the Ancient One's immortality and says she draws power from the Dark Dimension to stay alive./strong/p
p data-p-id="183d79232dcb070919b0c708ab642e61""My only question is 'why.'" Thor said./p
p data-p-id="7b9f960ee217b9353047e53f9cafeac6"strongMordo says that it's not true. /strong/p
p data-p-id="13517d81247a0a2d9f7a87461833b288"strongStrange says he's seen the rituals and worked them out and he knows how she does it. /strong/p
p data-p-id="6c5bbd0d77fb5542102019b6852a7d19"strongThe Ancient One says the Zealots will return when they've regrouped and tells Strange he'll need reinforcements then she leaves. /strong/p
p data-p-id="4730d88873d5d6aeb54ee4e089335485""She's not even going to deny what you said?" Hope asked./p
p data-p-id="154082085e85dd0a97f0a7a1d55d5ef8"strongStrange tells Mordo that The Ancient One isn't who he thinks she is. /strong/p
p data-p-id="9f07b931348f08d3c262013d4feac52c"strongMordo says he doesn't have the right to says that because he doesn't know the weight that rests on her shoulders. /strong/p
p data-p-id="75c7ec74533b792933fdf052ee007eb7"strongStrange says he's right and he doesn't want to know. /strong/p
p data-p-id="87082c798ae89f028783cc8d762966bf""I do now." Strange sighed./p
p data-p-id="cffa46d078c7bf4b7f7e73a7dd16b737"strongMordo calls him a coward. /strong/p
p data-p-id="263bf29ffd70d1a3ad79b237b9e347e8""Lot of accusations going around today." Tony said./p
p data-p-id="1587cc50d7f986e0059f0a62e976c09b"strongStrange asks if it's because he isn't a killer. /strong/p
p data-p-id="7d52f7351279332443e354ecf7792231"strongMordo says the Zealots will snuff them all out and Strange can't muster the strength to snuff them first. /strong/p
p data-p-id="a00ecb05afbe130e02f8d66b83c0cc58"strongStrange asks what Mordo thinks he just did. /strong/p
p data-p-id="313d3e12736ba2293231fcdd49fadf94"strongMordo says he saved his own life and whined about it like a wounded dog./strong/p
p data-p-id="5f154b5dac931bae17a57f9ac9c68bc0""Wow, rude."/p
p data-p-id="105c6481c32e2ac6d925d679cafeae18"strongStrange asks if he would've done it so easily. /strong/p
p data-p-id="049ea3310ef14c7ff4094c29ce1e7272"strongMordo says Strange has no idea of the things he's done and he would do it without hesitation./strong/p
p data-p-id="97fac2282fae72544ad9a65e7f953e0a"Everyone looked at the screed, warily. Now, they were unsure if Mordo was as trustworthy as he seemed./p
p data-p-id="4f735ec2b13ab336eed79198dbd459b6"strongStrange asks if he would still do it of there was another way. /strong/p
p data-p-id="7e5a7d6b89a7e58525859bb67b73c39a"strongMordo says there is no other /strong/p
p data-p-id="a51f2e503208cea1bc4dfa8754ec833b""I wouldn't be too sure about that." Tony said./p
p data-p-id="847e66c26937e81db1097ac3efa7dc33"strongStrange says Mordo lacks imagination. /strong/p
p data-p-id="f20c6425531a274c678aa194a4993f30"strongMordo tells Strange that he lacks a spine. /strong/p
p data-p-id="95aab3ff89e371d4f5b9a52c3d20548e""Do I?" Strange asked./p
p data-p-id="02b57b3075d1994dc010d0c221d51776"strongKaecilius and the Zealots return, Mordo and Strange run to the foyer. /strong/p
p data-p-id="05bca97da676b5129f6e16efeee41324""Great. They're back." Bucky said./p
p data-p-id="36c2ea76eea6f223bb3c9c8379609ba5"strongMordo says they need to end it and fights the zealots then tells Strange to join him. /strong/p
p data-p-id="35ba966190b71f919de626db46eb5dac"strongStrange sends all of them into the mirror dimension/strong/p
p data-p-id="2d6c1706f193596824f10886bb585229""Ha ha. Clever." Wanda said./p
p data-p-id="6e942dc36e681db3b5f1a550c464183b""Actually it wasn't as good of an idea as it seemed." Strange said./p
p data-p-id="83dfb1ba0a615be80374b40afa90ee9c"strongStrange tells Kaecilius he can't affect the real world there and asks him who's laughing now and calls Kaecilius an asshole. /strong/p
p data-p-id="a4793ccf3b8b234d074b26659a5476a0"strongKaecilius says he is./strong/p
p data-p-id="55bdd27bc90ac5d413e08a908b63eceb""What? How?" Happy asked./p
p data-p-id="ad1bc02278463bdb9563a86f24961650"strongKaecilius starts warping the building. Mordo frees himself from the Zealots' hold. Strange runs for the door, Mordo follows. Strange says Kaecilius can't escape because he has the sling ring. /strong/p
p data-p-id="facdecf3da9ece5d8d8cbd265e1ab5a7"strongMordo tells him to run and they run. The intersection gets warped and looks like it's floating./strong/p
p data-p-id="a81c02c8d7c611187b54429e7667d443""Whoa!"/p
p data-p-id="ccc0cf1039d54615e83d7c5b900cc751"strongMordo tells him that the zealots' and Kaecilius' connection to the Dark Dimension has made them more powerful in the mirror dimension. He says they can't affect the real world but they can kill them and Strange's plan wasn't clever but it was suicide. /strong/p
p data-p-id="3a5165fe123b2fcc30e17b7b813fa498""Wish I thought that one through a little more." Strange said./p
p data-p-id="0f67540aeedc95e48947595cf853a32b"strongThe zealots chase them. Strange tries to open a portal. Kaecilius uses magic to make the building fall over. Strange and Mordo fall on to a bus. A man(Stan Lee) Is reading. /strong/p
p data-p-id="384c0bb85c0acab77bb96973a91823b2""Again, there he is." Pepper said./p
p data-p-id="c52d33ba7983e8dff1585b1ee0a13522"strongStrange and Mordo run up the side of a building, Strange tries to open a portal, the zealots chase them. Kaecilius makes the building start wobbling then splits it in two./strong/p
p data-p-id="c327b6dd949956377821d3c5b519d690""Oh god."/p
p data-p-id="55e935d4fd7627f76a38bed2fdf94fa0"strongStrange and Mordo fall. The city starts folding in on itself. Strange and Mordo fall on to another building. Strange says that this was a mistake./strong/p
p data-p-id="db7a65b9472304be7f4a6120eb2f86ae""You think!?" Everyone shouted./p
p data-p-id="6146fd866bc0eccc56d4121db320cb03"strongThe building moves and they fall off and through the city./strong/p
p data-p-id="a03174ad9f9c6d4a1bbc59a0aa5a78b4""Oh no."/p
p data-p-id="4b267806e0aa7e94802b3b8e5df3c0f5"strongThey land on a platform, Strange falls through and the zealots chase him, he falls into the street. Then he and Kaecilius run on opposite sides of the same platform, the run into each other. Kaecilius chokes him and takes back his sling ring./strong/p
p data-p-id="24109a0802c392fdeb5c01ec25e1c536""Damn."/p
p data-p-id="4c05e252a9894ba3798a8779e253a68c"strongKaecilius conjures a magic shard and tries to stab Strange before the platform splits. /strong/p
p data-p-id="6b3c2aa21213ec4ab9e54ac510ee750b"Everyone looked relieved at that./p
p data-p-id="78d94fa3397ed1d6df0c2bff691eceb2"strongThe Ancient One appears and makes a circular platform in the air. /strong/p
p data-p-id="cf5ce0edac20e36e4e8e3a58322bcfb5"Everyone cheered./p
p data-p-id="a165c9b3a9aa168e9dc3fcf5b45a67ef"strongThe patterns in the platform move, Strange and Mordo get moved with them. Mordo realizes that the Ancient One does draw power from the Dark Dimension. /strong/p
p data-p-id="0afbcbbd38d475b6671f7fa3d6252599""Yes, but why?" Mantis asked./p
p data-p-id="a7bf9a0b02d66aba5aea9d7a69195173"strongThe Ancient One looks to Kaecilius. Kaecilius says he came to her broken and in need. He says he trusted her to be his teacher and she fed him lies. /strong/p
p data-p-id="a6f0b103e80bcc2bf1f7fc591741e4e0"strongThe Ancient One says she tried to protect him./strong/p
p data-p-id="8e47f163156ac31b09e8f8b8db376f03""Lying in the name of protecting is lying all the same." Loki said./p
p data-p-id="45ea4dada889dd4b76e1c55d5f07b232"strongKaecilius asks if she tried to protect him from the truth. /strong/p
p data-p-id="22819316aff212829e6e3e7b3850c4d3"strongThe Ancient One says she tried to protect him from himself. /strong/p
p data-p-id="bca13e128a30ae8d44e78d83e468d081"strongKaecilius says he has a new teacher now./strong/p
p data-p-id="04434cd2123d7a22cf4b34cd2d63049b""Dormammu?"/p
p data-p-id="a870c789b5ea3a51aa5311c5de937da6"strongThe Ancient One says Dormammu deceives him and he has no idea what he truly is. She says his eternal life is torment not paradise. /strong/p
p data-p-id="119c7e5f9c4027dbb7fa36fe0727302b"strongKaecilius calls her a liar./strong/p
p data-p-id="dd5dd343d3a0a4d67d2db6cf02526fff""Not a liar." Strange said./p
p data-p-id="d86a415361b7d131ff4de5801d4a87d1"strongKaecilius and the zealots conjure weapons. The Ancient One starts fighting them. Kaecilius makes the platform ripple, The Ancient One sends the ripple back in his direction. /strong/p
p data-p-id="d8c8cc43306f6434498a522e7211e305""Nice."/p
p data-p-id="d958c484afd9db365145d4c013afefb7"strongThe two zealots attack the Ancient One, one of them stabs her. Kaecilius makes a portal and kicks her through it./strong/p
p data-p-id="f3ffd903ae259fb86b026249fd510578""No." Everyone gasped./p
p data-p-id="d5402d8f7b37123feceb1b38cf19c063"strongMordo and Strange jump in after her. The portal closed. The Ancient One falls onto the street. Strange and Mordo run up to her./strong/p
p data-p-id="f46df0fe1bb85ac29824bb74cb2e8f94""Oh my god." May gasped./p
p data-p-id="90e4d80fe2dadb75c6ae2c229b442f50"strongStrange takes the Ancient One to the hospital and calls for Christine. Christine sighs./strong/p
p data-p-id="d043c2367279512c140fac9ab919d82b""She sounds so done with you." Ned said./p
p data-p-id="24e30daa4a6afaf1e1f6192279f32e32""She usually does." Strange said. "She usually is." He added./p
p data-p-id="48128429fbde3def4009a6cdb2f22d59"strongChristine sees what's happening and runs to Strange. Strange says the Ancient One has a stunned myocardium. /strong/p
p data-p-id="f246c473426c1c1b020fd01dd65bfb05"strongChristine asks if it's neurogenic. /strong/p
p data-p-id="d2978f8ffbd6996116d1712ae36b0d6c"strongStrange says it is. They get her into the operating room. Strange gets ready for surgery./strong/p
p data-p-id="676a540be078c005682eb4f3c2baa9ee""You're gonna operate on her?" Everyone asked. /p
p data-p-id="eb177a57d0a794bfb9ecf9dd89bb56c5""Actually, I'm not." Strange said./p
p data-p-id="6780f2eb23c66ca78d5f9888b6731f23"strongStrange picks up a scalpel and his hands shake, he passes it to Dr. West and says they need to relieve the pressure on The Ancient One's brain. The Ancient One flatlines. /strong/p
p data-p-id="9ed871f95fc81ca16fae2cf4ad22eceb""Oh no."/p
p data-p-id="7e9182fb214a4dbe71ff76f7bd6c918b"strongChristine says they're losing her. /strong/p
p data-p-id="c66e13005105e54e2affb9c89236090d"strongStrange says they need to increase her oxygen. /strong/p
p data-p-id="9e168c7842d4baa05cf3229e90e687cc"strongChristine says she needs a crash cart. /strong/p
p data-p-id="532628075bc54b4572987c2749be4f9d"strongA nurse says she has no reflexes and no brain activity./strong/p
p data-p-id="0551df0504162f3abe6158c7706c3cd3""She's dying." Pepper said, sadly./p
p data-p-id="4e70bd690721fdc949ebe22044a33c35"strongStrange's astral form emerges from his body, he follows the Ancient One's out of the room. /strong/p
p data-p-id="ebac304ec19f2b38b818250aedbd8ccd""What is she doing?" Peter asked./p
p data-p-id="d9ea0c493393f958a18473d5932e5cea"strongStrange asks her what she's doing and says she's dying. They get outside. Strange tells her to return to her body because she has no time. /strong/p
p data-p-id="67bb1b34c88989c656fd0593a0df8dc6"strongThe Ancient One says time is relative./strong/p
p data-p-id="1af737ce4e28ff9e4eb356f9cf452cce""True."/p
p data-p-id="5d9805f571310bbad4ed7dd74c54d927"strongThe Ancient One says Strange's body hasn't hit the floor yet. She says she spent many years peering through time and looking at this moment but she can't see past it./strong/p
p data-p-id="ca0ccbca62b448dc5ed8fb6b76d3e4fd""She knew?" Everyone asked./p
p data-p-id="899613c9d484d5e9259a692b149266a6"strongThe Ancient One says she's prevented countless terrible futures and after every one there's always another./strong/p
p data-p-id="19acb164fccfff40d1e2f9c03933f00b""It never stops." Vision said./p
p data-p-id="f653e5206d5affde9e71bf0d53582933"strongThe Ancient One says that all of them lead there but never further. /strong/p
p data-p-id="479ac56edf454590693f8b032356b163"strongStrange realizes that she thinks this is where she dies./strong/p
p data-p-id="f722f7e58f93d493f225797f97b322e0""I'm pretty sure she knows this is where she dies." Maria said./p
p data-p-id="d3febd83f3c5853e87da9449393c208a"strongThe Ancient One asks if he wonders what she sees in his future./strong/p
p data-p-id="fa60cd6e3f29ad8ecb290e1dd4dbcfb4"strongStrange says he doesn't, before backtracking and saying he does. /strong/p
p data-p-id="2ce1f8da49d5c0d485b0f5393afb0184""How could I not?" Strange asked himself./p
p data-p-id="2ece5c3faf2453a8888485e16e907a6c"strongThe Ancient One says she never saw his future only it's possibilities. She says he has such a capacity for goodness and he's always excelled because of his fear of failure not he craved success. /strong/p
p data-p-id="2465f9910f9309cde71272c5adaed5f4""Wow, she is good at reading people." Natasha said./p
p data-p-id="5fd1e6135743571e36f3be4b00fa43ac"strongStrange says it's what made him a great doctor. /strong/p
p data-p-id="9a967637f228dc4c2ea829ab1a34f161"strongThe Ancient One says it's what kept him from greatness. She says arrogance and fear still keep him from learning the simplest and most significant lesson. /strong/p
p data-p-id="e6e32736e202507924fadeac4d60ca6a"strongStrange asks what it is. /strong/p
p data-p-id="1e5314a9a4e98d322c11b3aa9615dbc8"strongThe Ancient One says the lesson is it isn't about him./strong/p
p data-p-id="206a1970520139be2c703ad2d9bed6a6""Rarely is it ever about one single person." T'Challa said./p
p data-p-id="0ddf8d6c19753cd94143974c624444f3"strongThe Ancient One says he asked how she healed Jonathan Pangborn when he first came to her and says she didn't. She says he channels dimensional energy into his own body./strong/p
p data-p-id="73dac3ee04ef876e8498a8e0c274aeeb""So he isn't healed, but he's using his magic to make it look like he is?" Wanda asked. /p
p data-p-id="3745ee863e1f23b44b574c9180ba711c"strongStrange asks if he's using magic to walk. /strong/p
p data-p-id="b2f5c35c36f5cfa676af0b36d4575088"strongThe Ancient One says he does it constantly. /strong/p
p data-p-id="c3e7de3635be2f2f9d8de982c993f0c2""Sounds... tiring." Thor said./p
p data-p-id="9ffff685a9ba61e5a0c22195a3415f15"strongThe Ancient One says Jonathan had a choice and he could either return to his own life or serve something greater than himself. /strong/p
p data-p-id="6c55fe2d473fd7d15fbe936c0af6eefa""And he chose the former." Steve guessed./p
p data-p-id="952ce550fc1ffb8c2624735962172911"strongStrange asks if he could have his hands and his old life back again. /strong/p
p data-p-id="9815a320d772b0073d2a573267d9bd04"strongThe Ancient One says he could but the would would be all the lesser for it./strong/p
p data-p-id="46efc1b04a33e9f9ec7dffb220cb7030""She might be more blunt than Erskine." Clint said./p
p data-p-id="e49eb5ab6b171d655e0c736e1b7af25a"strongThe Ancient One says she hated drawing power from the Dark Dimension, but as he knows sometimes they need to break the rules to serve the greater good. /strong/p
p data-p-id="2435f66f425c13ae2e998d538e9b8ad1"strongStrange says Mordo won't see it that way. /strong/p
p data-p-id="0f92b89322b1d4290e503c6a951defe8""Of course not." Sam said./p
p data-p-id="376a05cc78fae9e4b50d7c119b76bdc2"strongThe Ancient One says Mordo's soul is rigid and unmovable and forged by the fires of his youth. She says he needs Strange's flexibility just as he needs Mordo's strength and they can only stop Dormammu if they do it together. /strong/p
p data-p-id="d28ebc2829cb62ccd3e39f23a0e959db"strongStrange says he isn't ready./strong/p
p data-p-id="17279559aa72f786b93d163a9ff0b0c1""None are." Valkyrie said./p
p data-p-id="111a5531ab7937493d5d02a10cce88b3"strongThe Ancient One says no one ever is and says no one gets to choose their time and death is what gives life meaning./strong/p
p data-p-id="7d157634245d2e4b2afc3a3462b0cc7c""She's right." Sam said. "How can you ever fulfil your life if you have an infinite amount of it?"/p
p data-p-id="ffab8d6bb5ea209763a8f022135a197b"strongThe Ancient One says he'd think that she'd be ready after all that time but she's stretching one moment into a thousand just so she can watch the snow. /strong/p
p data-p-id="935615e8f5290ddbb0d21f7c1c60e6b9""Looks peaceful though." Natasha said./p
p data-p-id="6e89257707094534ec5e36fdf6f7fd1a"strongThe Ancient One's astral form disappears. She's dead. /strong/p
p data-p-id="ddc5aab8e0ebe6eb0c2e77c9652719e5"Strange looked down sadly, tears brimming in his eyes. He was determined not to let them fall./p
p data-p-id="006a2e15753170af385f77e1d76875dd"strongStrange washes his hands./strong/p
p data-p-id="6eb9b5d915306cfd7fb528716713bd68"A few people looked irked that Strange didn't pull his sleeves up to wash his hands but kept it to themselves. /p
p data-p-id="edfbe9b8bf1ab44fbffd49130d63e6db"strongChristine walks in and looks at the Cloak of Levitation./strong/p
p data-p-id="b709beaf471cf1f8fa7fc3c5a9d7f64c""I can only imagine how confused she is by all of this." Carol said./p
p data-p-id="2a8bdf6a9ad519788b1b6e4cea2a7f32"strongShe walks to the sink and washes her hands too. Strange grabs her hand. Christine asks if he's okay. Strange looks at her. Christine says she doesn't understand what's happening. /strong/p
p data-p-id="9ca45d77ffa41299ec79a55a363f349e""Yeah, this is very confusing." Quill said./p
p data-p-id="0657cd4d32010fd2e04a93ed6bc6bb5f"strongStrange says he knows and says he needs to leave now and reminds her that she said losing his hands didn't have to be the end and it could be a beginning. /strong/p
p data-p-id="811591b93753dfda00757de4e38d3933""And this is your new beginning." Pepper said. /p
p data-p-id="84c3e79d3d7bf634009827ea56e7f06b"strongChristine says there are other ways to save lives. Strange says it's a harder way. Christine says it's a weirder way./strong/p
p data-p-id="4324e37fee3d07ee9326b4bb96b8f816""She's not wrong." Shuri said./p
p data-p-id="de36e96267df1a84cc337dc19d3f3430"strongChristine gets called to the ER. Strange says he doesn't want her to go. Christine kisses his cheek then leaves. /strong/p
p data-p-id="5623135ca7a92e6cafef9fdd79121d4d""Aww." Everyone said. /p
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p data-p-id="3edf15f1c048b52c95fd99b9026f028d"strongThe cloak wraps around Strange's shoulders, he straightens the collar. The cloak starts wiping Strange's tears. /strongstrongStrange tells it to stop and it does./strong/p
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