"Mutants...aren't real. Here, anyway. How could someone be killing them?" Did they think they were still mutants and that life was still happening? Hazel couldn't imagine it. But then she knew how her last life ended. This was a whole new one.
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"Mutants...aren't real. Here, anyway. How could someone be killing them?" Did they think they were still mutants and that life was still happening? Hazel couldn't imagine it. But then she knew how her last life ended. This was a whole new one.