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[greyate]

[ She nods to herself, wiping at a cheek as she feels water start to run. ]

Yeah, I just--the past few weeks have been rough, you know? A lot to deal with. You know it can be for me.

[ Because it took her a long time to deal with other people's emotions as well as her own. And even now, when she's feeling a lot herself, it will be hard to keep herself guarded from others. It happened when she first arrived on the ship all those months ago. ]

You're not overbearing.

[ A long beat, closing her eyes. ]

I've missed you.

he's the worst i'm sorry

[welcomeprofessor]

I know.

[And he does. He's well-acquainted with the unique Hell that is experiencing so many more lives than one's own. He would be the first to admit it as bias, but he still understands this level of telepathy as one of the harsher psychological burdens when it comes to the manifestation of their varied mutations. It isn't to say that being mutated at all doesn't carry its own problems, or that more obvious, physical mutations don't present their own unique set of terrible problems.

But he knows what it's like to not be able to shut this out. To have to hear every opinion that mental illnesses do well enough on their own to exacerbate in their doubt. Invisible as it may be, to understand all of that pain, and doubt, and all of those secrets that people rarely speak aloud (right down to all of those vitriolic thoughts slung as though they might have been actually spoken) is as much as curse as any other mutation with a notable downside.

Charles will give her a pass on that, though he knows it would be just as easy to give that explanation as an excuse. If Peter has his reasons for his anger, she undoubtedly has her own for her guarding. So, it may be a pass, but it isn't forgotten by any means.]

Oh, now you're just saying that to make me feel better. [He'll just bring that right back around, down to a similar laugh.] But I will remember you said that.