[Clea and three of her friends from adjoining dimensions are sitting at their usual table at Cafe Nexus, a bistro situated on top of an interdimensional hub. Food has been ordered, but has not arrived. The mood is heavy.]
FRIEND #1: Again?! Clea, sweetie, this is getting ridiculous. Who was it this time? That Maximoff woman?
CLEA: Wanda? She's still dead. And she would know better.
FRIEND #1: He can't treat you like this! You're the sorcerer supreme... of two dimensions! Doesn't that deserve some kind of respect?!
FRIEND #2: Your relationship is just too complicated. With me, it's very simple: I'm introduced to the male. We mate. I eat him. No worries.
CLEA: Well, when it comes to eating Stephen--
[Joke censored]
FRIEND #3: [TERRIFYING HISS]
CLEA: Magda, I know you don't really mean that.
FRIEND #3: [TERRIFYING HISS w/GURGLING NOISES]
CLEA: Thank you, Magda. It's good to know you have my back in times like this.
FRIEND #1: Where is our food? Did the entire staff portal out to another dimension?
FRIEND #2: It's only been five minutes.
FRIEND #1 [pats her belly]: Well, I've got five thousand hatchlings in here and they're all hungry.
[Dr. Strange materializes at the table. Clea's friends eye him coldly.]
DR. STRANGE: Ladies. [beat] I'd like to talk to Clea. Alone.
CLEA: We have nothing to talk about.
[Clea vanishes. Dr. Strange then disappears in a plume of orange smoke.]
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FRIEND #1: Again?! Clea, sweetie, this is getting ridiculous. Who was it this time? That Maximoff woman?
CLEA: Wanda? She's still dead. And she would know better.
FRIEND #1: He can't treat you like this! You're the sorcerer supreme... of two dimensions! Doesn't that deserve some kind of respect?!
FRIEND #2: Your relationship is just too complicated. With me, it's very simple: I'm introduced to the male. We mate. I eat him. No worries.
CLEA: Well, when it comes to eating Stephen--
[Joke censored]
FRIEND #3: [TERRIFYING HISS]
CLEA: Magda, I know you don't really mean that.
FRIEND #3: [TERRIFYING HISS w/GURGLING NOISES]
CLEA: Thank you, Magda. It's good to know you have my back in times like this.
FRIEND #1: Where is our food? Did the entire staff portal out to another dimension?
FRIEND #2: It's only been five minutes.
FRIEND #1 [pats her belly]: Well, I've got five thousand hatchlings in here and they're all hungry.
[Dr. Strange materializes at the table. Clea's friends eye him coldly.]
DR. STRANGE: Ladies. [beat] I'd like to talk to Clea. Alone.
CLEA: We have nothing to talk about.
[Clea vanishes. Dr. Strange then disappears in a plume of orange smoke.]
FRIEND #1: Showoff.
FRIEND #3: [TERRIFYING HISS]
FRIEND #2: Oh come on. You'd do him in a second.
FRIEND #3: [TINY SQUEAK]