The room wasn't exactly warm, but there was a chill in it that wasn't just the temperature. Stephanie was hardly ever cold, a natural side-effect of her particular mutant metabolism, but it was hard not to feel a chill, nonetheless. She nodded.

"She wasn't wealthy like your family would have been. I imagine they were hoping you'd fall for someone rich." She looked over at Marcelo again for a moment. "I think, though, in him, I can see some of the reasons why you did as you did."

"There are some who feel similarly about Marcelo and I, for a number of reasons."