After committing suicide on the moon as Dark Phoenix, the portion of Jean Grey's consciousness that had bonded with the Phoenix force awoke in the afterlife (a realm later called the White Hot Room). Jean found herself on top of a floating tower in an outer space like realm wondering why she wasn't dead. Dressed in a White Phoenix outfit Jean wonders if there are three phases of the Phoenix: Green the Good, Red the Bad, and White to which she hasn't discovered the meaning to. Later Jean is approached by Death itself who manifests as a male cosmic construction worker. Death has Jean build towers in the afterlife to house the souls of Dark Phoenix's victims. Jean also relives the experience of the destruction of the D'Bari system from the point of view of the victims. Death tells Jean Grey that she was destined to become the Phoenix to heal the M'Kraan Crystal and that if her and the Phoenix were not meant for each other then they would not have reached out for each other. Death tells Jean Grey that she is an avatar of the Phoenix because her "spirit" is "most closely carved" from the Phoenix. Death tells her that her perceptions and imagination has influenced the Phoenix and that it belongs to her by right and will one day come to her children.

Base Figure - ML: Psylocke
Hair - ML: X23