[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

[lehnsherr]

Where is it?

telepathy

[radars]

The dome. I think.

telepathy

[lehnsherr]

You've been in there?

telepathy

[radars]

Of course not.

telepathy

[lehnsherr]

[The how do you know? is there, but it goes unsaid.]

Who did you read?

telepathy

[radars]

It was told to me willingly.

[ Said defensively. He also took the knowledge from someone else's mind, but there's no need to tell Erik that. ]

telepathy

[lehnsherr]

That isn't what I asked.

[Because he doubts the ethics of reading a mind without permission really matter to this Charles.]

telepathy

[radars]

What does 'willingly' mean to you, exactly?

telepathy

[lehnsherr]

Willingly or not, you gained this information from somebody else. I want to know who.

[Though the more important question is, can they be trusted?]

telepathy

[radars]

[ Charles dips, a little -- a toe in the water, little ripples across Erik's thoughts. He isn't intrusive, just testing the temperature of Erik's mind, of his emotions. Protectiveness, that's what he feels. ]

Agent Kay. The other, when we removed my collar.

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[lehnsherr]

[Agent. Why are they always involved?]

And how did he hear about it?

telepathy

[radars]

Research? In what passes for this place's library? Suspicion is all well and good, Erik, but you might try giving people the benefit of the doubt once in a while.

telepathy

[lehnsherr]

[Well, perhaps he needs to mention that library to his own Charles too.]

I'm not the type to place my trust in strangers. [If anybody.] Where's this library?

telepathy

[radars]

And I am?

Ask around, I'm sure someone can point you the right way. It's not restricted.

telepathy

[lehnsherr]

[The "helpful" goes left unsaid. Instead-]

Is this a common occurrence around you? These...telepathic outbursts.

telepathy

[radars]

[ Long pause. ]

My control isn't what it once was.

telepathy

[lehnsherr]

Then fix it.

[Though for once it isn't just for his own benefit.]

telepathy

[radars]

It's not that simple.

telepathy

[lehnsherr]

Why not?

[His curiosity is clear. What little he knows about his own Charles' abilities isn't nearly enough to offer help here. Not that he's entirely sure that offer would be welcome if he made it.]

telepathy

[radars]

Leave it alone.

[ He doesn't want to answer. ]

telepathy

[lehnsherr]

Fine.

[Because he'll just have to talk to Raven about it then.]