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[heartofthedream]

"It never is as simple as, 'at the beginning,' is it?" Jean asked, beaming, surprised at how light her voice sounded. Nearly almost to a laugh. The whole thing was infectious.

[balancingminds]

"No, beginnings are remarkably hard to find. Everything overlaps and intersects even when we can't see it. Forgive me, I talk too much,"

Especially about what he loves the search for knowledge and understanding.

[heartofthedream]

"You haven't said nearly enough yet, to talk too much." Or even think too much. There were others who fit the first one far better, especially in her teens. And he had several times fit the later. But not yet, and not tonight.

Which of the three would you like first?

[balancingminds]

Where are we? As that is solid ground. Good, I don't know enough about how my own thoughts sound.

Raven is not a telepath and has drawn clear lines around when he can speak in her mind and when he can't,

"I will try to not say too much. I have a habit of lecturing if given the chance."

[heartofthedream]

This is their world. The world he gave her though. Even if he had to both take it away and give it back in proportions over time. "You are free to speak to me, as you like. I have been told, I'm quite opinionated, if and when the necessary time appears."



This is Milliways. A status nexxus point at the end point of time and space in every single universe in the omniverses. It is not always safe, but it is kind, most of the time, to most of its inhabitants.

[balancingminds]

Fascinating. May I presume then that I will continue to encounter other telepaths here?

His smile is staying rather firmly where it is, "Then I look forward to learning more of your opinions."

[heartofthedream]

There are. . . other beings who have the same capacity. One or two people who have it in an unrefined state, that cannot be changed from what it is as it is for them. But as we are, at present, right now?

It is only us, that I have seen so far.

Which does not surprise her, or sadden her the way it did when she was too young to understand. To be able to stand just how much power and how many thoughts in how many people.

[balancingminds]

His smile falters for a moment but that means there are others with different abilities.

I see. Even one other makes a great difference.

[heartofthedream]

Jean's smile was very slow. As thought she tried to stop it, but could not find enough power, in the whole of Milliways and the universe really to stop it making its way.


One other can make all the difference in the world.

[balancingminds]

Her smile gives him hope and his returns.

Yes, it can.

[heartofthedream]

She'll try to keep it in check.

It might be an interesting test of will.





Any more questions about Milliways?

[balancingminds]

He looks around at all the various types of people and then back to her. Not at the moment, no. Instead tell me what you will of yourself.

As he has no desire to ask more than he may of her, he doesn't know if this meeting will happen again.

[heartofthedream]

She has to consider that invitation carefully. All the seams it might rip, all the silence that comes from her as she thinks about it. She can almost hear Lucas and Forge, and Scott, in the back of her mind.

I am a mutant, she says, to clear that question away. I have telepathy and telekenesis. And. Several. Other things. One does not quite go about, telling even The Professor, or a young Professor before Professor-ship, that one can alter timelines, birth and destroy whole universes.

That one is both this and that, all at once, without divide.

[balancingminds]

A small bit of tension disappears from his body and his smile doesn't contain all his joy and happiness.

I hoped you were.

[heartofthedream]

Jean can only be pleased in response.

I cannot say it has ever been an easy road. Between her best friend dying, and any number of the people who have tried to kill her since her late teens. But I have only ever rarely wished for a life that was not this one. And not in a very long time.

[balancingminds]

No, I don't think things have changed that much. But to not be alone is a great gift.

In his mind flashes the image of a shifting and laughing face.

[heartofthedream]

I have rarely every been alone in that way. Except when she was very very young, and coming out of the near walking coma Annie's death had set off with the emergence of her powers. My. . .teacher was very wise in that regard.

Friends and teammates, fellow students and family members. All in one. The next time she returned. People to lean on and grow with. They might stand outside the world, but they had never had to be any more alone than to look to each other. And how that group had grown.

[balancingminds]

It sounds like your teacher was wise and that you had a good place to grow.

His life is easily divided into the times before and after Raven as when he was a child for all the voices he could hear, he knew no one else was like him.

[heartofthedream]

I was very lucky, Jean agreed, with a solemnity that did not border into bragging. Not forget all the danger it had brought. It was simply a deep, true loyalty to that specific part of her past.

[balancingminds]

The loyalty in her voice and mind is amazing, he's glad to know there are such groups.

I hope in my own time to find ways to help other mutants. If any of them end up feeling as you do, I will have done something of value.

[heartofthedream]

She pressed her lips together. What really is there to say to that? If anyone ended feeling as she dd. If there were others.

That is a very noble goal, Jean settled for finally.

The concern and want for that would never leave him, even if she'd never felt it before against such youth, such untried hope and concern. But then, she hadn't existed yet. They all hadn't existed yet. And they were the foundation of the future, the foundation of facts he'd always had when he thought of it all later.

[balancingminds]

Yes, I hope it will be possible.

As he knows it won't be easy. That isn't the way of the world, but he will try.

[heartofthedream]

I don't doubt you'll find a way. Dreams like that have a way of refusing to die. Rather like people who fell into the arms of them.

[balancingminds]

They have people at the heart of them and we're all rather good at not giving up.

At least he is and he sometimes forgets that not everyone is quite as dedicated.

[heartofthedream]

He'll be surprised. Continually. How far how many would do to meet his hands.
And how many will not understand, the harder tasks that have to managed.


Yes. Jean glanced down. A demur more than to look away from him. This part would never be not true, no matter the good or bad. Ever. That is quite true.