[locks, then telepathic broadcast]

[radars]

[ Locked to Erik Lensherr ]

I don't suppose I have a right to ask for this, given how I've treated you since we've both awakened.

But. Do you think we could wipe the slate clean?

[ Locked to Shepard ]

Should we speak?

[ Telepathic broadcast / significantly later ]

ooc ; If you'd like your character to feel this, assume they get slammed by it; if you would rather them not, assume that Charles' mind skipped over theirs somehow and only hit a portion of the population.

[ Early afternoon on Thursday, particularly psychically susceptible people might suddenly feel an agonizing, splitting pain down the center of their skull. Psychic overload, if any of them have experienced it before, drowning in a stream of information too much for one person to handle.

Brief impressions: the ship, no, the other ship, go back for them, four more, woke them up, the first, the first.

The contact cuts off as abruptly as it was made. ]

Comments

[telepathy]

[timesbureaucrat]

[Narvin would sympathize if he were the sort to feel sympathy for acquaintances.]

/Where did it...what.../

[His thoughts are disorganized, words fading in and out behind a general scene of confusion and curiosity.]

/There's another ship?/

[telepathy]

[radars]

[ Two chaotic minds tend to enhance one another, rather than help; Charles retreats, and he sends only one, clear message: ]

/Do not try to read the Oracle's mind.

Trust me on this./