cerebro is quite an exciting thing, don't you think.

[helpmeguideit]

[ The room that you could step into is one of many in the CIA installment that he has been spending time in. It is surrounded by several pieces of equipment. Charles is standing in the center, looking around and examining Cerebro. He moves his fingers over the headpiece, feeling it carefully

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[stillherown]

[ One of these days she will stop being so curious. But until that time she'll be rather preoccupied looking over the controls of the machinery, albeit refraining from touching any of the buttons by holding her hands behind herself. ]

I must admit I am rather impressed.

[helpmeguideit]

Oh?

[ Pause ]

I didn't build it. I'll have to pass it on to the inventor.

[stillherown]

To see such a device made by a younger race is always worth noting.

[helpmeguideit]

You mean humans?

[curepotion]

[ he stands back, mouth set in a grim line as he watches Charles fiddle about and examine. this all looks too ... clinical for his tastes, laboratories and experiments aren't exactly something he's comfortable with. he almost wants to block off his ability to make sure he doesn't see anything. he turns to leave, but he's prompted, so he has to speak. ]

... yeah.

[helpmeguideit]

Are you alright?

[curepotion]

[ maybe it's knowing what comes after this that makes his stomach queasy. foresight is always dangerous, and in this particular case, it's giving him a headache enough that he rubs one of his eyes. why do some people's lives have to be so damn emotional? ]

Yeah.

[ he steps forwards, into the room. there's some--surge in him. he's younger, only eighteen, and this man is much older than him but he feels like he wants to protect him somehow. but, well. nothing can, can it? Professor X and all. ]

I'm fine, sir.

[ a pause. he looks away. ] What is it?

[helpmeguideit]

Cerebro. It can enhance telepathic skills.

[auncyenhalig]

Ah--I...guess? [ She tilts her head, looking at the thing in the center and then around. ] Most machines I like belong in an amusement park. It looks like it does something big, but what?

[helpmeguideit]

Enhances specific skills.

[ Oh, yay! A familiar faces, he moves to step towards her. ]

Hello, Aerith.

[auncyenhalig]

Hi, Charles. [ She smiles, readily turning her attention away from the machine to him. ] Are you... a scientist, then? [ Charles can catch the thought that if he is, he'd be one of the few likable ones she's met. (She'd like Hank, too.) ]

[helpmeguideit]

Yes, I am. [ He steps up beside her, smiling at her thought but not saying anything. ] How are you, my dear?