teddy beaufort ( technokinetic ) . (codebreaking) wrote in light_of_may, |
When Teddy got into the zone like that it was so easy for things to slip him by, for him to miss everything else going on around him like the rest of the world simply ceased to exist, and for all intents and purposes it did. A bomb could have gone off close by and he might have wondered why ground was trembling a little but beyond that he wouldn't even bat an eye. Teddy could shut everything out, shut it all down and exist only in the digital world. To him it was comforting, reassuring in a way no non-technokinetic could ever understand, and he had only met a small handful of those in his life, so few that he could count them on one hand with fingers to spare. That was okay though, Teddy liked being in what was apparently a minority. It wasn't like he really needed the ego boost but he couldn't change how things were, could he?
When he typed it was with the kind of speed and effortlessness that most people envied or couldn't even begin to fathom, more times than he could count he'd caught people watching him in a silent kind of disbelief, he didn't need to watch his hands to know what keys he was hitting and there was very little he couldn't do using the keyboard. These people with their mousepads and wireless accessories were the baffling ones to him, he couldn't imagine relying on all those little extra bits and pieces.
That natural flow came to a sudden and distinctly startled halt when he felt it, the very clear and unmistakable siphoning of electrical energy from around him, channeling into someone close by. Very close by. Teddy almost knocked his cup right to the edge of his table in his surprise, he was so caught off his guard, and of their own accord his eyes started searching the immediate vicinity for the source. Something drew his eye, whether it was all the yellow or something more instinctive, something he recognised in her, but within moments he had her picked out of the crowd. Another technokinetic. Not a technopath, not with that kind of pull. Holy crap. What were the odds?