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❝ david, dear, you realize this is the only safe way to figure out what your powers are? ❞ she’d smiled and gave a reassuring nod. she’d been teaching mutants since she had her own powers under control, and they were all afraid. ❝ we all went through it look, if it gets dangerous, i’ll stop. but we can’t walk into situations and let you blow up. that can’t be your only strategy, as much as my mother believes you need to get through memory work first. it’s all propaganda, if you ask me.❞ she realized in a quick, embarrassing moment that he wasn’t asking her and nodded at nothing.❝ if it makes you feel better, we can talk through it first? try to remember and identify which powers have popped up before. we know you’re telepathic and very probably, almost definitely, telekinetic. if i didn’t know any better, i’d say maybe a reality warper?❞ she made a face, like she had spoken too much. that was the only tip they’d all recieved when they were told that they were bringing the most powerful, unstable mutant here don’t overwhelm the boy.
a … reality warper ? that’s not really something he’d use to describe himself . 'reality warper' . ❝ oh … yeah no , that was … that was syd , what happened . when we when we switched . ❞ assuming she’s talking about the … uh , incident at clockworks . hell , for all he knows , she could be talking about something else . tic-tac-toe doesn’t come that easily : a bunch of exes and exes and uh uh . all the walls bathed in red ( as bright as blood , gleaming in that stuttering light , that’s it ) ; all the screaming coming from everyone’s rooms . and syd technically , him , but uh calling out his name , trying to get outta there . but … ❝ i i don’t know how she did that . with the , the doors and the walls . i dunno how to do that stuff . ❞ does she know that he doesn’t know how to do all that stuff ? but if she’s sure , then … if he doesn’t work with them , how’s he ever supposed to figure these things out ? carefully , he makes his way through the doors , gaze darting every which way . ❝ talking would be good . i don’t know … anything . ❞
