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totesafightinggrace[A new voice comes from the communicators. It is low and just a bit gravelly, with a gently lilting accent. For a moment it is muffled, as if someone has his hand over the microphone, but then it clears up.]
Ah, hello? Is it true that if I speak into this device, people can hear me from afar?
[There is a short, disbelieving laugh.]
It's marvelous. Whoever invented it should sell it to my people. They would become hideously wealthy in days.
[Action spam for anyone on level 4.]
[The man walking down the corridor has the strangest eyes. One is pale and silvery; the other is not so much brown as golden. Each color alone could be considered beautiful, if unusual; but both set in his face they end up making him look jarringly uneven, rather than beautiful. He's also got small gold hoop earrings in each ear and a hoard of rings on his fingers. His simple travelling clothes look old, but they are clean and look as if they may once have been expensive. He's got a long stride, but he is walking unhurriedly. In his hand is the communicator, which his thumb keeps grazing over. If you approach him, he will smile and greet you.]
Ah, hello? Is it true that if I speak into this device, people can hear me from afar?
[There is a short, disbelieving laugh.]
It's marvelous. Whoever invented it should sell it to my people. They would become hideously wealthy in days.
[Action spam for anyone on level 4.]
[The man walking down the corridor has the strangest eyes. One is pale and silvery; the other is not so much brown as golden. Each color alone could be considered beautiful, if unusual; but both set in his face they end up making him look jarringly uneven, rather than beautiful. He's also got small gold hoop earrings in each ear and a hoard of rings on his fingers. His simple travelling clothes look old, but they are clean and look as if they may once have been expensive. He's got a long stride, but he is walking unhurriedly. In his hand is the communicator, which his thumb keeps grazing over. If you approach him, he will smile and greet you.]
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Date: 2012-02-26 04:42 pm (UTC)Do others here know that you can sense... mind-readers?
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Date: 2012-02-26 04:55 pm (UTC)I'd rather people didn't know, same as you. [She steepled her fingers and focused on him carefully. She wasn't going to tell anyone about him, and hopefully he wouldn't tell anyone about her. She didn't want the complications.]
I can only sense them when they're trying to scan me, really. If I'm lucky I can block them or at least attempt to hide my thoughts, but that's about it.
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Date: 2012-02-26 05:09 pm (UTC)Then I shall keep your secret as you keep mine. I am glad, Susan. It is good that if anyone has to know of our secrets, it should be one another.
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Date: 2012-02-26 08:11 pm (UTC)I suppose balance is necessary and there is always two ends to a secret. We each have something that needs to be kept away from others.
[But that said, there were other people on this ship who had their own sort of mental talents.]
There is at least one telepath--a mind reader--aboard, if you need to know. His name is Charles Xavier. There may be more, but I've managed to keep my head down as far as anyone else is concerned.
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Date: 2012-02-28 04:07 am (UTC)I am never pleased to hear of other people who are forced to deal in secrecy, but I admit that it can be good for a person to hear that he is not the only person carrying such a burden. I will guard your secret with my life, I promise.
[But his eyebrows draw together when he hears of this other mind-reader.]
What does this Charles look like?
Re: [Spam] -Yay!
Date: 2012-02-28 04:20 am (UTC)Charles is little more than a boy himself, I guess. Blue eyes, dark hair. Powerful, I think, as far as being a telepath is concerned. From what I've gathered, powerful enough to make a friend of his wear some sort of telepathy blocking helmet. At least I think that's what it is.
Re: [Spam] -Yay!
Date: 2012-02-29 02:36 pm (UTC)Is he a warden, or an inmate?
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Date: 2012-02-29 04:11 pm (UTC)Re: [Spam] -Yay!
Date: 2012-03-02 05:08 am (UTC)And you know of no others like him?
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Date: 2012-03-02 10:57 am (UTC)There are others who may be telepathic in nature to some degree, but I haven't done much mingling. I try to...keep to myself, I guess.
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Date: 2012-03-03 07:47 am (UTC)I think I will try to do as you do. And is this Arkady able to sense others with psychic abilities?
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Date: 2012-03-03 02:14 pm (UTC)Re: [Spam]
Date: 2012-03-04 04:51 am (UTC)Nevertheless, I think it would behoove both of us not to be open about our abilities. Where I'm from, psychic powers bring nothing but trouble.
Re: [Spam]
Date: 2012-03-04 05:40 am (UTC)[Her expression was blank for a moment.]
The Corps found out about my mother when she was in her thirties. She didn't want to join them, and refused to go to prison, so she took the drugs. Ten years of taking those drugs, every week, and then she killed herself rather than living an empty shell of a life.
Being open about what I am, even if it's not much, is not going to happen. Too much at stake.
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Date: 2012-03-07 06:13 am (UTC)I am... very sorry for the loss of your mother. If anything, your world sounds even more dangerous than mine. A psychic in my world may be shunned or even killed, but never forced to kill himself out of desperation.
[He looks positively nauseated at the idea. Though the nausea may also be from being in close proximity to someone who makes his thoughts echo like this.]