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[excessivehubris]

[Someone’s cell phone, device feed, whatever turns on, upside down and turned outwards so its hard to tell who’s contacting the network. Instead, it shows a feed of the inside of the Abax Central Station and the sound of rapidly approaching trains can be heard

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[carrytheshield]

[Have a concerned look from James.]

Hey, are you okay?

What was that noise? Where are you?

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[excessivehubris]

[Give him a moment James, he's not really focused on the idea that this device had recorded his words or that anyone would talk back. He's also got a niggling feeling that there's something he should be aware of with this but it's juuusstt out of reach and ... wait, what?]

Ah, hello? I do beg your pardon, I didn't catch that?

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[carrytheshield]

Do you know what you're holding?

[This is old, but unfamiliar technology for James, but he knows what it is from books.]

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[excessivehubris]

[Sorry James, the picture is going to waggle a bit as he turns the phone over in his hand.]

I've been told it's something called a cellphone and apparently quite the groovy thing at some point in history.

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[carrytheshield]

Yeah. It let's us see and talk to one another, wherever we go.

[A pause, but then he has to ask]

What does groovy mean?

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[excessivehubris]

[Have a side look James. It's not exactly unkind, just sort of ... ahem!]

I did pay attention in class. [At least enough to know the basics of how the phone worked, if not all the pretty nuances, like ... oh, filters?]

Groovy? It, well, it means ... fascinating?

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[carrytheshield]

[Hey how is James to know he knows?]

We're not all from the same place, or [time, but he's not going to say that]... I thought you might not know.

Groovy.

[James has a new word.]

I like it.

I'm James.

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[excessivehubris]

[Sorry James. He gives a small chuff of wry amusement.]

I received that realization almost from the start. [In spades but that was not this young man's fault.] I apologize if I sounded short just then. This place is remarkably trying on one's sanity temper.

Charles Xavier.

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[carrytheshield]

Tell me about it.

[James argued with Loki, which was a bad idea, but this place is difficult.]

It's nice to meet you, even if this place does suck.

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[excessivehubris]

A pleasure. [He says politely.] And, err, yes this place does leave quite a bit to be desired.

Do you find yourself here alone?

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[carrytheshield]

Just a little alone.

[Being alone really bothers James he misses his family.]

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[excessivehubris]

[Momentarily distracted from the trains moving back and forth through the station, he looks sympathetically at the young man.]

I fear I know how you feel. I rather miss my sister.

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[carrytheshield]

I miss my sister and brothers. And there is someone I know here, but.... it's the wrong- he's not really the man I know.

I've never been away from them before. Ever.

I hope you get back to your sister soon.

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[excessivehubris]

I ... rather hope I don't. [He said with a gentle smile.] I wouldn't want her trapped in a place like this.

Besides, she is here, in a way. Like what you describe, it's her but its all wrong, she and I don't have the same memories or experiences. I believe her ... timeline I guess, corresponds to the other me running around.

[You know? This place is hell on proper grammar.]

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[carrytheshield]

I mean, I hope you go back to her, not that she gets trapped here. I wouldn't want anyone else to become trapped here either.

Oh, woah, there's another you?

This isn't one of those cases where he's an evil you, is it?

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[excessivehubris]

[That made Charles chuckle and he shook his head.]

Other way around. I believe I'd be considered the 'evil' one. I mean not that I am but there are other people who line up with his version of events, rather than mine.