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Caspar Leyton (brannenford) wrote in compass_network,
@ 2022-03-01 10:34:00

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eggsy, tom sully jr, wanda maximoff, ~caspar leyton

Good morning.

Let me thank the gentlemen who assisted me on the day of my arrival for your kindness. I wish I could say that my mind is less troubled on this day than it was on that that one, but unfortunately, I cannot. I have spent my time since then with your history books.

They are wrong. Wrong in many particulars, from the great to the small. Pretannica is 'Britain' and Gaul is 'France' and the wars are protracted or shifted or simply not as they should be. The dates are wrong, all across the past millennium. Places are wrongly named, and many august personages either are not mentioned or are said to hold the wrong offices. On a more personal note, the great city of Calleva, near which my family has its estate, in your books appears to have disappeared when the Romans did.

Further, I cannot find a single mention of telekinetics.

The similarities, however, are numerous and uncanny enough that I cannot simply say that I must be reading about some other planet, even as I learn the nature of this place.

What would you make of this?

- C. Leyton

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	brannenford 2022-03-02 04:02 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you, I will. They are all people who won't be alarmed if I speak to them about abilitis like ours? You can't help it if there are things you just don't know. Did it get easier? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wanda_the_witch 2022-03-02 04:29 pm UTC (link)
	Telekinesis does not bother them. It did. But I fear it is a lifelong path to walk. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Private brannenford 2022-03-02 09:44 pm UTC (link)
	Wanda, I fear I have not told you the whole of the truth. I hope you will understand why, and honesty now seems better than letting matters get further tangled. It is true that I was registered as the lowest grade of telekinetic. My parents were trying to protect me, and to avoid the embarrassment I mentioned. My real abilities go past that by some margin. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Private wanda_the_witch 2022-03-08 10:21 am UTC (link)
	[Ooc: Sorry for the delay! I've been busy for a few days. Also this reply takes Wanda a little longer than the ones before] Thank you for your honesty. I do not judge you for not having spoken up earlier. We all have things we try to hide. Those side effects you talked about... do you suffer them? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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brannenford
2022-03-08 02:04 pm UTC (link)

Not the worst ones. I do not see and hear things that are not there, or lose myself entirely to seizures and visions. They are worse than I admitted to, all the same. Dizziness, sometimes low fevers or aching muscles, and I am given to frequent fainting. My physician hid this, and to the world I was simply an unfortunate boy with some other illness. I was dismissed from school for it, but I managed to go to university with nobody realising the truth.

You mustn't think I am complaining of it. I know there are people far worse off than I am. I manage things.

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	Private wanda_the_witch 2022-03-09 08:07 pm UTC (link)
	And have you found some good in it? It seems a lot to carry. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Private brannenford 2022-03-09 09:07 pm UTC (link)
	No, I see no good in it. It is only a burden. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Private wanda_the_witch 2022-03-09 09:11 pm UTC (link)
	I am sorry that is the case for you. Would you be willing to explore your powers with me? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Private brannenford 2022-03-09 09:19 pm UTC (link)
	Do you mean that you would like me to demonstrate them for you? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Private wanda_the_witch 2022-03-09 09:20 pm UTC (link)
	I would. And I can show you mine. And maybe together we can find some good in them. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Private brannenford 2022-03-09 11:19 pm UTC (link)
	I cannot see that this will be successful, but I am very willing to try. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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