Jesse is not the first undead that Adia has met in the Nexus, but he is most dead looking, and as such, it takes her a bit of courage to look at him without cringing. It helps that his tone is so compassionate. Likewise that whatever trauma she's been through is so overwhelming that his corpse-like appearance is small potatoes in comparison.

Bucky is not nearly as copacetic about this guy's face. He grumbles in Adia's ear, but she shushes him with a scratch of his under-the-chin feathers. "I'm not anybody's leader," she says quietly. "I know our president is having a horrible time with the news, but she's battling cancer, too, so..." Bad times all around.

Nodding numbly at his offer to listen, she carefully folds up the drawing in her hands. "S-sure. Thank you." She gestures to the chair next to her, the one on the other side of the giant wary bird. "It's kind of a long story."