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You can't actually want to talk about this.

[He says with a little forced laugh.]

It's fine. I'll get over it. Just takes a while sometimes. Tell me more about your stupid drinking game.

[sophielicious]

'Course I do. And I could be listening very closely, too, but I'm not, hence why we are talking.

(Oh. Okay. She can not do that, actually, because explaining it sucks.)

... I'm just going to show you.

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Show me.

[He's still giving his charming smile, and pretty clearly doing what he can to avoid a deeper conversation.]

[sophielicious]

(Well, okay.

She'll do the telepath thing of touching her temple, a cue that she is about to do some telepathy shit as her eyes turn bright white with hues of pink.

Enjoy insta-download knowledge in your brain, Jayce.)

Hellion and I came up with it.

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Oh.

[The brain download feels crazy, actually. He squeezes his eyes shut tight, rubbing his own forehead as if he has a headache.]

Okay, I thought you'd show me it as a vision.

[sophielicious]

I could have, I didn't know you had a preference.

(Look, he's fine!! It's just his first time. Baby gotta learn.)

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My brain's all I got going for me, so no more knowledge injections, okay?

[He doesn't know if that's going to affect him later on, or something...]

/There's contradictory rules here.../

Seems fun. When is this happening?

[sophielicious]

I'm very properly, traditionally well-trained. It's not going to mess you up, I can promise you that, but sure.

(Boring. AND HER RULES ARE GREAT, DON'T THINK ABOUT IT.)

As soon as I round everyone up, it should be around this week, at the school. You get to see the barn we were all raised in.

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Sounds great. Looking forward to see what the whole mutant gang hangs out. I'll see you then?

[Another thrum of anxiousness, as he's pretty clearly expecting her to leave at this point.]

[sophielicious]

(But she is not.)

Jayce. Seriously? Do you really want me to go or are you just avoiding your shit? Two different things. I can go and leave you to be bummed out on your own, but I don't think that helps you any.

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[Now annoyance as the facade breaks fairly easily, as she keeps picking at the scabs.]

I said I'll get over it.

[sophielicious]

(Her first instinct is to rip off the scab. Make him so annoyed that he has no chance but to talk. Just gentle manipulation, really, nothing too grand.

But it's one of those moments she manages to catch herself thinking about the craving before she does it on impulse. A summer miracle. She breathes in, breathes out.)

Good. If I shut up about it, you still want me to leave?

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[His shoulder's lower, untensing just a little bit. He picks up a fry again and even pushes the plate a little closer to the center of the table, so she could take one if she wanted.]

I guess not.

[sophielicious]

(There we go. Nice, she did something good, and she's being rewarded with fries.

She's not touching them, though. A toothpick is going to pick up a fry for her before she takes it with her fingers, long pink nails on display before it goes into her mouth.)

Deal, Talis. Then pull a subject.

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Who else is going?

[sophielicious]

I invited everyone in the manor, so that's all the mutants, but whether they will all come to the common room, I am not sure. Cait, Wade, Cable, Peter, You, Chrissy and Maria got invitations. That's kind of everyone I know. Just four depowered people, but I'll pair you with powered people for, I guess fairness.

(Since powers are encouraged and bullshit is, too.)

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I don't know who lives in the manor. Name and powers?

[sophielicious]

The most normal shit in that house is telekinesis and telepathy. That's 95% of us, with me, Nate, Quire, and ugh, Jean. Storm, self-explanatory, Hellion is TK, Hope is a power borrower, Josh is a healer, and I think that's pretty much it.

(Leaving out specifics. She's not going to go on the biokinesis shit that Josh has, or power manipulation, and blablabla. Still building that trust, but look, first step.)

Huge mancave energy, though. Too many dudes.

[hexcope]

Slow down. Hang on. What's TK mean, and what do you mean "healer"?

[Immediately distracted.]

[sophielicious]

Uh, TeleKinesis, Talis. This.

(She's taking a few fries with her own pink glow so they can dance in the air.)

... Means what I said. Elixir is literally the meaning of the word.

[hexcope]

So Hellion is telekinesis and not telepathy- you, Nate, Quire, and Jean are telepathy and also telekinesis, and I meant define the healing. Surface wounds, internal bleeding, organ failure, genetic diseases? The whole thing? Or just one of those?

[sophielicious]

Not sure, Talis. I am not the Elixir expert. I died before we could become besties.

(Half lie. He's an Omega-level biokinetic. What can the man not do? Very little, she supposes.

Still, not at this level of trust yet.)

Wounds, I can say yes, definitely.

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-Wait, you're dead? I thought...

[The other 995 clones were dead? So she and her four sisters were alive, is what that would imply...??]

[sophielicious]

Oh, no, not currently. People die and come back when you least imagine a bunch all the time. I've been back for a couple of years, I think, probably.

Don't worry about it.

[hexcope]

It's kind of a worrying thing?

[He's squinting at her now, lips twisted into a judging frown.]

What does the trick? Magic, superpowers, science?