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The mutants of Krakoa are waiting in near breathless anticipation of the arrival of their new neighbors. Since their victory in the Tournament of Swords, the X-Men have been trying to work out exactly how the introduction of a new mutant nation-state to their part of the world will play out. Even the majority of those living on Krakoa are incapable of communicating with their sentient homeland, leaving more questions in the air than any of them could reasonably answer. Luckily, there is one mutant on Krakoa who is both willing and able to translate, and he's about to put his skills to good use as the X-Men's new resident matchmaker.

Cyclops, Cable, and Rachel Summers are gathered together to watch Arakko's arrival on Earth and conversing about the potential for the islands to reunite physically and merge into their former, singular self as the land of Okkara. After Krakoa pushes away the Arakko Point, the location of the gate by which Arakko proper will be transported, a brilliant flash of light nearly blinds the spectators. When they look up, the towering land of Arakko has landed atop the Arakko Point, standing tall above their own island. The two lands reach out to one another, the roots and vines twisting around those of their new compatriot -- but something is wrong. The islands release their hold on each other and pull away, leaving the onlookers curious as to exactly what just happened. Thankfully, the X-Men have Cypher on their side, the one person who can manage literally any conversation (other than those with his own wife).

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Once Cypher and Krakoa itself have worked out how they're going to go about the impending (not quite) blind date, the two meet Arakko halfway between the two islands, both having taken on a lumbering, Groot-like form. Things don't go particularly well, it seems, and Cypher returns to the Quiet Council to inform them that there isn't going to be a reunification of the islands. The two massive mutants haven't been in contact with one another for thousands of years, and at this point, neither of them seem interested in the idea of joining together once more. Cypher is even so blunt as to plainly say that "they don't like each other anymore."

Kate wonders if the two sentient states can't just talk things out, to which Cypher reminds her that facilitating the conversation between them was a much more literal task for him than previously expected. Krakoa and Arakko, while they share many of the same features, have become drastically different in a myriad of ways as a byproduct of the environments which they have respectively inhabited over the past several thousand years. They literally don't even speak the same language. Cypher wonders if these differences in evolutionary deviation don't extend beyond Arakko as a being and to its inhabitants as well, which could be a huge problem considering they outnumber Krakoa's own people almost twenty to one.

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If there is one person who has an intimate knowledge of the differences between Arakko and Krakoa on deeply personal levels, it's Cypher. Though he wasn't the most able fighter in the Tournament of Swords, possibly even the least capable of all the combatants, he did walk away from the event closer to Arakko's people than any of his companions. Cypher's duel against Arrako's Bei the Blood Moon culminated not in battle, but in an exchange of vows, as the two mutants were wed in a ceremony that awarded each competing nation a point in the tournament. It also created what seems to be a loving and sincere relationship between Bei and Cypher, even if she is somehow immune to his mutant ability to speak any language. If the two of them can make it work, maybe there's hope that they can set an example for their sentient nations as well.

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