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Excalibur 12

"Absolom. You. You are lucky." (Panel 3)
"You have shamed yourself, Absalom. And now you are skin and fragile, delicate bone." (Panel 4)
"But I have need of you for my numbers. Get on your feet. The ritual must begin." (Panel 5)

X-Men 12

"I'll start with what I know you know. The story as was told to me: Okkara, the one land of mutants." (Box 1)
"It was ancient before that word existed, but not yet old in the way they were old." (Box 2)