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[balancingminds]

"A roadhouse, that must have been an exciting environment,"

Charles follows his glance and wonders what this man sees as he looks. A few of the minds Charles can get a sense of thoughts, some send up strange static, others are in languages he doesn't understand, he wants to know more.

[lunarwolf]

"Not ... as interesting as this."

If Charles was searching, then he likely saw some other interesting sights. Creatures that were conglomerations of technology, magic, inanimate objects -- and yet they walked and fought and exploded into green froth that puddled on the ground like the worst pollution. But beyond those memories, mental gears were starting to turn.

"You came here from... elsewhere. Not North Dakota. That means that that door is a portal."

[balancingminds]

"Oxford, England actually,"

The images in Merrick's mind rather make Charles doubt how boring he claims his former place of work was.

[lunarwolf]

"...A wide portal." He'd traveled the world, so he knew the basic location of England, but not of Oxford within England. What he did know was just how far England was from North Dakota. It concerned him and made him frown as he thought about just how wide this portal had to be. "It doesn't feel like the Orgs are behind this. And the mutants were destroyed as well. That means I don't know where to start with this."

[balancingminds]

"The Orgs, why would they be behind it and who are they?"

At the mention of destroying mutants, Charles schools his face to its blandest. Apparently wherever this man has come from, mutants are seen as a danger.

[lunarwolf]

If Charles is still listening to his mind, though, the image that comes through his mind is more like this than of anything that resembles Charles. Much like the Orgs that pass through his mind at the question. "Living corruption," Merrick answered, his voice low and full of memory. "They have their plots, and they find ways to execute them. But they were destroyed - all but three. None with the power to do this."

[balancingminds]

The images look like something from a movie and Charles frowns,

"I see. Then it's another type of power."

[lunarwolf]

"But it's something big. Something that joins one doorway across the ocean, and... even wider places." Just to judge from the clientele that he could see from where he stood. "Strong magic."

[balancingminds]

"Or science or even a combination of the two."

[lunarwolf]

There is, in Merrick, an immediate disdain at the thought of science contributing anything useful. But he gave a slight nod all the same, so as not to offend. "Maybe. It sets me on edge."

[balancingminds]

"Why? I ask because I'm a scientist myself. I'd like to know how to not make those mistakes."

[lunarwolf]

A scientist. It's a fight to keep his nose from wrinkling in distaste. "Science has only harmed the earth, adding to the corruption for the Orgs to feed off of."

[balancingminds]

"Only harmed? Has a doctor never healed someone you know or found new wonders where no one knew they existed?"

[lunarwolf]

"No," he answered plainly. "All I've seen from science is chemicals dumped and killing plants and animals, smoke in the sky and poison in the water."

[balancingminds]

"Then I can understand your anger but you're being unfair. Life is rarely so black and white. Most things tend to be hidden in the grays. Doctors can heal. We learn from plants and animals how we work to better understand how we're still evolving."

[lunarwolf]

"And the living land? The trees that have disappeared, the rivers that have caught on fire? The fact that nature itself is straining to keep up with the number of people that live on the land? The deaths of so many animals - how there used to be fields of them and now there are so few that they can actually be counted instead of guessed? Humans have no respect for the balance of nature." And there was more anger behind that sentiment than he'd shown in his voice. He'd seen far too much of it with his own eyes.

[balancingminds]

"It sounds like it's been treated horribly and balance is important in all things. Control of what's given and taken or else it all falls apart. Yet it seems like you have only seen the worst. Perhaps there is good that is quieter and so has slipped by you."

[lunarwolf]

"There are people who care," he allowed, "but their number is few and only now that the earth is in crisis are they listening." And this argument had completely distracted him from the original question of just where he was and why he was there.

[balancingminds]

(OOC: And I used the completely wrong icon up there. Sorry about that.)

"Has there been time to add to their number? Are there people doing that or is the focus on fighting?" It sounds as if it might be and that worries Charles. If you fight the world then you're left with no one to stand beside you.

[lunarwolf]

"It's been ten years. And longer than that since those few people started to see that it was time to change." He privately allowed that yes, things had been improving. More people were concerned about the condition of the world, and he could appreciate that. But the general disregard was the fastest way for his temper to flare.

((No problem - these things happen.))

[balancingminds]

"Ten years is a lot, yes, but if people's minds are changing, that's progress. Keep building on that. Minds can change."

[lunarwolf]

His reasoning was difficult, if not impossible, to explain. He couldn't tell someone what it was like to actually live in complete balance with nature and the Spirits. He couldn't tell someone the pure rush of wonder that came with feeling the Spirits' approval bloom in his mind and the joy it brought with it.

Just like he couldn't explain how he could feel the weight those Spirits now held as nature was stretched thin.

"And if they don't, I hope I'm dead before I see the world become a wasteland."

[balancingminds]

"Then I hope you find a way to change that course,"

Charles can feel some of what he can't explain and he understands better why this man has so little hope.

[lunarwolf]

"So do I. ...And maybe find who's behind this portal."

[balancingminds]

"Yes, I'm going to see if I can learn more at the counter. I'm Charles Xavier if we ever meet again,"

He offers his hand to Merrick. This wasn't a useful conversation about this place but Charles has learned a lot.