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...Illyana's slow descent into full demon sorceress has been in the fact that it is shown far more that it's told.

Issue by issue–and doubly so since the team's death and resurrection–Illyana has waded further into the depths of her demonic nature; seeming to have dropped...

...disturbing Illyana despite the *clearly* marked warning signs all over her door.

But yeah, let's unpack this for a minute–because holy shit Illyana, things are getting dark. Beyond her cavalier joke that the demons won't eat Dani–"without her permission"–the strength of...

Roberto lashes out, calling Doug a coward, leaving Sam and Dani to essentially restrain their friend from further action.

The Hellions arrive, and James Proudstar cautions the rival group against taking further action against Empath, or else the New Mutants have a fight...

...relations in society. Empath's disgust at the children's game is justified, but his reaction to severe; a realization we're left to sit with as the New Mutants enact their revenge plot against the Hellion.

Hellion wakes in a way-too-happy-to-do-this Illyana's throne room...

...used on a group of children playing X-Factor.

In our read through, this is the first mention of X-Factor outside of their own title; it helps not only to bring the book into the wider X-Line, but to support the growing evidence of the team's negative effect on human-mutant...

...kids simultaneously faced the worst possible consequence of diving recklessly into battle; but it's no matter: his speech works and the team resolves to set out to get their revenge.

The kids stalk Empath to the Massachusetts Academy, where they witness his manipulations...

...casts' traumas, a facet of the book extended even to two of its most background characters.

Roberto, still not out of his suit–and looking like a boy playing pretend at the role of man–storms back to the pool to ask Stevie what's been done to rectify Tom and Sharon's assault.

...absent from most of our recent New Mutants issues.

Stevie brings the entire up to speed (well, mostly) on Empath's attack on Tom and Sharon, still haunted by their disturbing manipulation at the Hellion's hands.

As a series, New Mutants has never been quick to erase its...

...that leaves him feeling significantly less mature than the rest of his team.

The contrast is probably bettered by Rahne's absence in this issue, but Rahne's absence is bettered by the reappearance of Stevie Hunter, who outside of her most recent appearances has been fairly...

...the team than might be expected.

Berto returns with gifts–and a healthy fear of Illyana still intact–but whatever growth he's experienced is frankly eclipsed by the terrible, collective trauma the New Mutants experienced (and died from, and then were brought back from)...