Script:	Jo Duffy (credited) (original concept) Chris Claremont (credited)
Pencils:	Steve Leialoha (credited)
Inks:	Steve Leialoha (credited)
Colors:	Glynis Oliver (credited as Glynis Wein)
Letters:	Tom Orzechowski (credited)

• Genre:superhero

• First Line of Dialogue or Text:And for the third night, while the young samurai stood guard...
Universe:Marvel : mainstream

New Mutants

• Cannonball [Sam Guthrie]
• Magma [Amara Aquilla]

  (cameo)
• Mirage [Dani Moonstar]

  (cameo)
• Illyana Rasputina

  (also character in story)
• Sunspot [Roberto Da Costa]
• Warlock

  (cameo)
• Wolfsbane [Rahne Sinclair]

X-Men

• Colossus [Piotr Rasputin]

  (also character in story)
• Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner]

  (also character in story)
• Professor X [Charles Xavier]

  (also character in story)
• Rogue [Anna Marie]

  (also character in story)
• Shadowcat [Kitty Pryde]

  (also character in story)
• Storm [Ororo Munroe]

  (also character in story)
• Wolverine [Logan]

  (also character in story)

• Black King [Sebastian Shaw]

  (villain, character in story)
• Stevie Hunter
• Lockheed

  (also character in story)
• Lilandra Neramani

  (character in story)
• Carmen Pryde

  (cameo, character in story)
• Theresa Pryde

  (cameo, character in story)
• Amanda Sefton [Jimaine Szardos]

  (also character in story)
• Rachel Summers

  (Days of Future Past - Earth-811)

  (cameo, also character in story)
• White Queen [Emma Frost]

  (villain, character in story)

Bertani (villain, character in story)

Synopsis:

Illyana's fairy tale.

Reprints (5)

• in Essential X-Men (Marvel, 1996 series) #5 (2004) [black and white]
• in X-Men Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #12 - The Gift (2015)
• in Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 2003 series) #11
• in The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2006 series) #4 (2020)
• in X-Men - La Collection Mutante (Hachette, 2020 series) #8 - Le don (janvier 2021)