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"Only if it's - " Nick was cut off by the arrival of a tall, lanky young man with ebony-black skin that gleamed under the harsh white lighting of the rink. "Oh, okay."
"What?" The newcomer asked, spotting Wanda almost instantly. Someone like Wanda might have been able to notice that he carried magic around him like a shroud, almost like he was covered head to toe in the stuff. "You brought a friend? And you had another... incident," he said with a glance shot toward Wanda and a meaningful nod to the black blood still smeared under Nick's eyes.
"Yeah," Nick replied, stepping in and giving the other guy a weird, complicated handshake, exchanging a few words in a foreign, alien-sounding language. "Wanda, this is Noel Ettin. Noel, this is Wanda. We... met earlier."
Nick gave Wanda a concerned look as he stepped away, shoving his hands into the pockets of his sweats. "You okay, Wanda?" He asked, sensing something was off.