( Honesty is difficult when it comes to her limitations in ways she doesn't want people to think about. But this is Mystique. Mystique who understands shape-shifting, and who wasn't going to make silly demands if she simply owned up to reality. )

< It's not worth the energy. Morphing's a little like what I imagine sprints to be like. You don't feel the effects until later, but every morph takes up a heck of a lot of energy. >