A smile flashed to her face, no time or need to restrain it. It was shocking that he should choose exactly that subject to bring forward, would she have preferred him to talk about the psychiatric? No. This was the exact fiber of her memory that he should dig on.
“Stand on the highest pavement of the stair, lean on a garden urn, weave, weave the sunlight in your hair” her voice was dreamy; it was a matter of recollecting those adored words from her mind. In a way telling those lines was much more intimate than describing her more obscure spots. Those lines held a meaning so sweet, so sincere that she felt as if they spoke openly about her. Elliot gave a small laugh as she sucked the last of the cigarette.
“After reading those lines who could choose anyone but T.S.? “ She moved her chair closer to the flames though she felt a lot warmer already, she was still wet and still in risk of one dreadful cold. Could she ever learn to separate so many particles and such small ones as to remove the rain from her clothes? That would be a practical angle to her power. Anyways she’d hardly been sick since her pneumonia incident, and that had been long ago, a life ago though she carried the scars with her.
“Dissolve the floors of memory, and all its clear relations, its divisions and precisions…” That was a hook, could he see it? How deep could he delve on her thoughts and memories? How much of what she said was actually sensed by him, was there ambiguity in her thoughts?
“I believe that particular piece of poetry might echo in your ability Professor?” Elliot wasn’t much of a tease on normal basis, but this was a meeting like she’d never had one before. “midnight shakes memory, like a madman shakes a dead geranium.”
She killed her cigarette on a swift movement, and leaned on his direction still close to the fire. “How far can you go?” Her interest was genuine, her questions should have been aiming for ‘What are you doing in this place? Why do you believe in bringing us mutants together?’ but every bit of that could wait. For now her only center of attention was him and his capacities.