He remembers Vulcan Raven. The birds. This person has powers of some kind. He meets the gaze of the hawk and gets the faintest sense of a massively heightened intelligence. Raptors were often like that, even on Earth, but even this bird wasn't ordinary.

His gaze shifts to the blind man as he moves. Code Talker had eyes like that. Milky white and somehow able to see everything going on around him. Maybe it would be like Code Talker and The End and others like them. Mantis couldn't find any sense of danger, merely of power. Whoever the man was, he was the stronger one between them.

The mention of brethren makes Mantis shiver. He can't begin to fathom what others might be in this strange Nexus.

"Sorrow has similar trouble with me. I was strong in life. Death didn't do much to lessen my power."