Xaviers!

Posted: **Fri Aug 18, 2017 7:38 pm**

The figure in the fencing gear, face hidden behind the fencing mask, steps back and forth along the mat. Sword out in front, she goes through the routine of battling an invisible opponent. She's actually decent at it.

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Posted: **Tue Aug 22, 2017 1:10 am**

Slowly as she practices, birds start to gather in the corner of her 'vision.'

She can occasionally catch one if she turns just right, a blur of black feathers. It's increasingly obvious that any spectators don't see them, though a couple turn to look in confusion.

Posted: **Tue Aug 22, 2017 2:43 am**

She stops, tucking the blade under her arm as she tries to get a better fix on the birds.

Posted: **Tue Aug 22, 2017 7:17 pm**

The birds seem to calm down a bit while she's no longer practicing, but they haven't left yet.

Ravens. Roosting all around the gym. An amateur might wonder, but Melissa can tell they're a mental projection.

Posted: **Tue Aug 22, 2017 7:20 pm**

Behind her mask, she considers them for a bit longer before making contact. "Hello. What bring you here?"

Posted: **Tue Aug 22, 2017 7:30 pm**

This sends a ripple of disturbance through the birds, and it's a moment before a coherent thought is returned.

"Oh! Oh, I'm... I'm sorry. My mind must have wandered," comes a feminine voice with an Irish accent.

Posted: **Tue Aug 22, 2017 7:33 pm**

"Ah. I must be 'speaking' with Miss McManus then. A pleasure to finally meet you."

Posted: **Tue Aug 22, 2017 7:50 pm**

"I guess this is... Doctor Terrance? I'm sorry. I didn't mean to disturb you."

Posted: **Tue Aug 22, 2017 7:55 pm**

"Not a problem. I had been meaning to check on you and see if you were doing alright, but I believe we have both been quite busy." She finds a seat, resting herself before projecting herself a bit more, her avatar forming in view of the ravens.

Posted: **Tue Aug 22, 2017 8:07 pm**

"...I guess I've earned someone checking in on me after the time I tried to sneak in and use Cerebra."

"But aye, been a pretty strange first semester."

Posted: **Tue Aug 22, 2017 10:05 pm**

"From what I've read, Cerebra is not for the faint of heart, so you at least have some of my respect. Strange semester, anything you want to talk about?"

Posted: **Tue Aug 22, 2017 11:12 pm**

"My codename's been getting... a lot more literal."

Posted: **Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:14 am**

"So I noticed." Her avatar gestures at the birds. "But telepathy tends to turn symbolism into substance."

Posted: **Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:25 am**

"When I was working with Muir and my tutors, a lot of what I had to do was get myself on a firmer foundation so I could get my shifting under control."

"So I guess I'm finding I'm more... changeable than I thought?"

Posted: **Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:35 am**

"Sense of self is a a good foundation for telepathy as well, but even the avatars of non-shapeshifters tend to be slightly morphic. I'm not surprised that yours is more morphic given you're other abilities."

Posted: **Wed Aug 23, 2017 2:56 am**

"I'd be lying if I didn't say it feels pretty right sometimes."

"Just kind of hard to let go a bit."

Posted: **Wed Aug 23, 2017 2:57 am**

"Let go how?"

Posted: **Wed Aug 23, 2017 2:59 am**

"Let go of this... smaller sense of what defines 'me.'"

"I feel like I had a bloody vise grip on it when I first got here, but I'm not sure it works anymore."

Posted: **Wed Aug 23, 2017 3:38 am**

"When telepathy is involved, it never pays to have too hard a grip, because that tends to make you brittle."

Posted: **Wed Aug 23, 2017 6:37 pm**

"That's reassuring, really. I mean, I don't ever feel like I'm not me."

Posted: **Wed Aug 23, 2017 6:43 pm**

"There would be some serious concern if you did, especially with your shapeshifting. Have you been keeping up with your telepathy tutoring?" It carried the air of a question to which the adult already knows the answer.

Posted: **Wed Aug 23, 2017 6:59 pm**

"Not... exactly. More of a learning by doing thing?"

Posted: **Wed Aug 23, 2017 7:02 pm**

"Nothing terribly wrong with that, but you might miss some of the finer points. If you'd like to pick up with it again on a regular basis, I certainly have time in my schedule."

Posted: **Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:27 pm**

"Maybe in the new semester? Not that I don't appreciate it, just that I've still got a lot going on leading into the holidays."

Posted: **Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:36 pm**

"Of course. I'm sure all of you just want to get away from your teachers for a while."

Posted: **Thu Aug 24, 2017 12:31 am**

"Not my first time away from home, but you get a bit homesick, and all."

Posted: **Thu Aug 24, 2017 12:39 am**

"I would imagine so, even when you're not that far away. I actually left the home I grew up in to come here."

Posted: **Thu Aug 24, 2017 4:29 am**

"Is Scotland nice? I've sort of been there but Muir is less Scotland and more a rock adjacent to Scotland."

Posted: **Thu Aug 24, 2017 1:27 pm**

"I've been told it's beautiful. I've never seen more than a shadow of it myself. Some day perhaps, when I'm there with someone who won't be disturbed by having me in their head."

Posted: **Thu Aug 24, 2017 7:36 pm**

"Oh, that's right, you're... I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking."

Posted: **Thu Aug 24, 2017 7:40 pm**

"Perfectly alright. Easy to forget some things when you're in head space like this. I have my own unique view of the world that other people don't get to see typically."

Posted: **Fri Aug 25, 2017 1:55 am**

"I think we've got some Scottish students, for what it's worth."

Posted: **Fri Aug 25, 2017 2:13 am**

"I'll have to look for them. We're usually pretty easy to find by sound."

Posted: **Fri Aug 25, 2017 2:14 am**

"The Yanks sometimes ask if I'm Scottish because they don't know the difference, but I'm sure you'd have better luck."

Posted: **Fri Aug 25, 2017 4:07 pm**

"At telling the difference? Most likely. There's a definite difference between the two."

Posted: **Fri Aug 25, 2017 7:12 pm**

"Bear in mind, the only British accent the Yanks seem to be able to do is half-arse Cockney."

Posted: **Fri Aug 25, 2017 7:30 pm**

"Of that I'm well aware. I attended the Institute years ago. Thankfully I was able to return home to a more civilized way of living after school." Her avatar grins.

Posted: **Fri Aug 25, 2017 7:46 pm**

"I kind of wish I'd gotten to go to the Institute. Coming here has given me a taste of what I was missing."

Posted: **Fri Aug 25, 2017 7:55 pm**

"It had its moments. I picked up fencing there as power practice. I find it usually more helpful to look forward though, rather than worrying about the things I missed while there, like participating on the teams."

Posted: **Fri Aug 25, 2017 9:20 pm**

"I like sparring. There's a flow to it, kind of like a duet."

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