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CHARLES XAVIER

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[forgodssake]

are you casting doubt on whether it is in our veins or whether it is ship-specific

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[darkart]

It being anything at all.

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[forgodssake]

it doesn't matter. we're bound, whether it's through a magic spell or through nanotechnology.
this girl needs help.

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[darkart]

Fine.

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[forgodssake]

you said to pass along cases.

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[darkart]

Yes. And you have done so. [ Tacking it on here. Belatedly. After Severus has contacted him about something else. Which he already regrets. Note to self next time just go for the dragging and yelling thing. ] It works out as I already owe her an apology.

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[forgodssake]

for?

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[darkart]

We met at the jump and it seems I've told her a few spectacular lies about her schoolteacher.

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[forgodssake]

[ Well that gets another pause, if less weighty than the last. Injured from walking right into that one.

But ultimately, it's not as though Charles has much else to do, except delete several sassy lines because he doesn't have enough self righteousness to hit enter on them. Instead; ]

Why did you contact me about the manticore blood

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[darkart]

Apparently, temporary insanity.

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[forgodssake]

[ It takes today's quota of willpower to remember he is talking to Snape, and to finish out his thoughts, after another pause. Or maybe just the time it takes to ramble into his phone. ]

I could hear their thoughts.
the manticores were psychotic and violent. the constructs in the centre room were calm and kind even when they were not. my telepathy can't even pick up the vapid urges of a particularly intelligent dog.
they scratched out their own eyes. he who fights with monsters.

we can see and touch and smell the samples because this tells us nothing.
we can't run analyses on it because it would tell us something.
the genetics labs are gone.

I think something is being kept from us deliberately. perhaps out of protection along with capture.

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[darkart]

So you are still in there somewhere.

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[forgodssake]

only one of us can be temporarily insane at a time.

[darkart]

[ No response. Severus is something (kind or considerate or weary or just dismissive) enough to not disconnect on him, but not charmed enough to sink back into the odd intellectual banter that had become so commonplace between them. He just can't stomach it with a stranger. ]