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[multiverse]

Hyunsu.

( oh. Joy. hot guy you dumped all your trauma on is actually as nice as he seemed to be while you bit at him like a starving, caged animal. )

Well, I'm alive. C'est la vie.
How ( are you?, someone normal would ask. ) is your neck?

[leavening]

[he honestly doesn't notice that's not a normal question. such is his life.]

it's fine.

i heal fast.

[so he's like, the ideal vampire meal, actually.]

[multiverse]

You know, I did notice that.

( there's the very natural urge to take her own discomfort in being Known and throw it into pissy irritation, say something like you're not going to get clingy now, are you? which is up there with the worst things you can possibly say to someone whose virginity you just stole, alongside well, i thought it'd be tighter. parisa doesn't, possibly just because they're over text and she has enough common sense to realize she's being a brat. it's not hyunsu's fault — it's hers. she knows how to play the part of doting lover, which hyunsu deserves, because even after eating away at all her internal boundaries, he still let her jump on him and gnaw his throat to bloody gristle. he's a good guy. )

I didn't go too hard on you, did I? I'm normally a much more gentle lover.

[leavening]

no

it wasn't like a normal bite.

["normal" bites as though being bitten is a normal thing for him, because it sort of is.]

it didn't hurt that much. it kind of felt good.

[Though on the other hand this is coming from a guy with stupid high pain tolerance, but still.]

[multiverse]

I noticed that, too.

( put parisa in a room full of people, and she'll sniff out the gluttons for punishment like a pig with truffles.

similarly, she's never found a pink elephant in any room she didn't feel the need to name, outlier to the experiment. therefore, )

That's quite the little trick you have. With the mind reading. It took me a full day to build my mental wards back up.

[leavening]

[oh right. well in a way he's glad she brought it up because he had no idea how to broach the subject or if he even should.]

sorry.

it only works with monsters and i can't always control it. i didn't mean to break anything.

[he knows nothing about mental wards, but if she had to build them up again, then that implies he broke them, right?]

[multiverse]

Oh, don't spare my feelings now.

( "monster." the irony is that parisa probably ordinarily would like being called a monster thanks to the inherent presumption of strength in the name. not right now though, when she looks about as monstrous as she feels. )

It was impressive. Since you can't control it, does that mean you've never been trained? Did you go to school for it or anything?

[leavening]

[???]

no

i've only been able to do it for about a year.

1/2

[multiverse]

2/2

[multiverse]

( > has only been able to do it for a year
> is already outmatching parisa, the best telepath still alive in her world )

Well.
You need to be trained, then. Don't you think? Or are you just going to avoid presumed monsters.

[leavening]

i can't do that, i live with one.

[not that Eunhyuk seems prone to biting, but Hyunsu does want to stab him sometimes. However:]

who would train me?

[multiverse]

( forgone conclusion: )

Me, naturally. And Professor Charles Xavier — do you know him?

[leavening]

no i've never heard of him.

[multiverse]

He trains people with powers. He calls them mutants, I’d call them magicians, you’d call them monsters. Same difference, as I see it.
He’s also a very talented telepath, like me. If you didn’t know, that’s why I’m so intrigued by you.

[leavening]

i think there might be some difference. most of the monsters from my world aren't like me.

he won't mind you volunteering him? he doesn't know me.

[multiverse]

Well, that’s expected when you cross hairs in the multiverse.

You really don’t know the Professor if you think he’d mind. He always wants new pupils.
And anyway, just having me as your mentor wouldn’t be so bad, would it?

[leavening]

i guess not. i've never really had one before.

[multiverse]

Technically, I’ve never had a pupil either. I’m not exactly the teaching type.
But while we’re here, I figure why not? When in Rome.

[leavening]

this is england.

[multiverse]

[multiverse]

Right. So when you say you’ve never had a mentor, does that mean you’ve never been to school? I don’t need to teach you timetables do I?

[leavening]

i dropped out of high school. but i had a normal korean education before that.

[multiverse]

Oh, good. We can skip right to the fun part.

When are you free?

[leavening]

i'm usually free.

[Unless he's hanging out with Eunyu or being bossed around by Eunhyuk, but this isn't like Green Home when he had to regularly patrol or go on errands. There's a lot of downtime.]

there isn't a lot to do here when they aren't making us play shitty mafia games.

[multiverse]

I was dead for most of it, so in that way, I don't think I've ever had more free time.
But noted. We're starting from the ground up, so it'll be hard work. But by the end of it, you'll hopefully have some control over it.