Research (Open)

[Sage]

"Excuse me, Miss, you can't go that close..."

Sage gritted her teeth in irritation, then turned around to face the security guard, a false smile on her face. "Oh, remember?" she asked sweetly. "I was given special permission for research purposes."

Well, not really, but it helped to be a telepath. The security guard believed she did now, and that was all that mattered.

"I apologize, Miss Tessa. I'll let you back to your work."

Sage waited until he turned around and left before she turned back around to the wall that she had been studying. It had been brought from Egypt, not long before the awakening of Apocalypse. But that wasn't what interested her. It was the hieroglyphs across the bottom. They had yet to be translated, but Sage recognized the symbols- the same ones that were in Famine's base.

She gently traced her fingers across the stone, frowning. "En Sabah Nur..." she muttered aloud, pulling a camera out and taking a picture of the hieroglyphics. Not that it was necessary considering she had a photographic memory, but it was best to have multiple copies. When she got back home, she could increase their size and print them out to work on a translation...

Home. Sage sighed, resting her face in her hands. That's right, there was no home anymore. Just a destroyed mansion and space borrowed from the Hellions.

She shook her head, then slid her hands down and leaned her head back, stretching out her neck. She might was well go- the British Museum was about to close, anyway. She should go back to her hotel and get some sleep (Sleep? What was that? She could barely remember the last time that she slept), but she knew the only thing that she would end up doing was to go back to her hotel room, down some coffee, and work on finding a way to defeat Apocalypse.

[Magneto]

"A most interesting piece." said a voice she knew all too well. Magneto, and he was standing right behind her, beside her after speaking in fact. Not adorned in his usual attire, opting instead for a more suiting piece while he was on Earth, something a little less noticeable, a fine suit under an equally fine trench coat, a hat to give his face some concealment, even in Merry old England some might recognize him and force him to defend himself in ways he hadn't planned on doing so.

"It would appear your latest report is some months late." continued the Master of Magnetism, hands clasped at his back. The tone of his voice however, suggested this wasn't a pleasant little visit to see how she was doing. His head turned from the piece, to look down upon her, to examine her features. She could try use telepathy to avoid the situation, but she knew more then well that even without his helmet his ability to resist a telepath was most impressive, and he'd only need a moment of clarity to disable the electric currents in her brain or move all the iron in her body to her heart.

[Sage]

"A most interesting piece."

Fuck.

Sage didn't need to turn around, she knew that voice anywhere. "Yes, it is." she responded calmly. "And perhaps informative, too. Hopefully, it is more than just a passing reference to En Sabah Nur."

Fuck. She must have been out of it, to not have noticed a mutant as powerful as Magneto approaching her. That's it, if she got out of here she was going to get a decent night of sleep for a change, even if she had to down some sleeping pills to do so. She couldn't *not* be able to sense powerful mutants coming her way.

Sage narrowed her eyes slightly, her only physical response to his next statement. She shouldn't have come here alone- if it came down to it, the only way she'd be able to defeat Magneto in a fight would be if she could get close enough and then shut down his powers... and she wasn't confident that she could do so.

"Yes, it would seem so." She said, keeping her voice calm. No need to get defensive yet, right?

Shit.

[Magneto]

"Everything we can learn is valuable, as they say...knowledge is power." he replied, with a slight smile before resuming his less impressed looking face. The Master of Magnetism even leaned into the piece to get a closer examination, returning to an upright pose just a moment later before returning his attention to Sage.

"Might I ask what that is?" he asked, an eyebrow raising now. "Has your situation become compromised? Because if it has we can leave now, we both know your alone here, you'll be safely tucked away on Asteroid M before Charles has any clue...and should Apocalypse blow Ms. Frost's Academy to kingdom come, at least our agent will be off the field." Magneto knew very well what happened at the Mansion, he had a proverbial and literal eye in the sky.

"Well then?" his head rose, so as to look down at her all the more, eyes becoming slightly narrow as he examined her like an Inquisitor who had found a witch, waiting for the confession.