Can you see me?
The day Seventh Avenue in New York vanished without a trace, someone heard those words.
That gray-white void devours everything. Detection equipment fails, superpowers are useless, anyone who looks straight at it loses their features, and those who enter never return.
The Avengers are out of options.
A coordinate in the mountains of China appears in a file SHIELD kept sealed for seventy years. The note reads: If the one you see is a child, proceed with caution.
They found her.
A girl who looked barely grown, wearing an old sweater and sucking on a lollipop, playing mahjong alone in the remote mountains.
“You’re looking for my master? He died a hundred and thirty years ago.”
Her name is A Jiu. Jiu, as in “never regret even if you die nine times.”
She says the thing is older than this planet, older than the Nine Realms. It only wants to “look” at humanity.
She says it can be reasoned with, but if you do, you’ll owe a debt. You won’t be able to repay it yourselves. Your children will, then your grandchildren, then generation after generation.
She also says... your red-haired teammate isn’t dead.
She just saw something she wasn’t meant to see.
When the Avengers meet the last practitioner of the Eastern mystic arts, when a being beyond the comprehension of even the gods and their sons has to be approached for a “talk” by a girl who looks harmless...
They discover that the world is far older and far deeper than they ever imagined.
Some things have always been watching.
Waiting for you to notice them.
Waiting for you to ask:
“Can you see me?”
Marvel and DC crossover | Eastern mysticism
