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[ Charles is standing in a field. Behind him - in a distance is a house that is his in Westchester in 1962. It's quiet here, and he is enjoying the quiet, though he definitely wasn't expecting it. Last he recalled, he was dripping wet and standing aboard a CIA ship. This was a pleasant surprise, and he was mostly aware that it was a dream. He let his hands slip into his pockets as he took to the quiet grounds.

It is bright outside, cloud free. He looks up, a smile spread across his lips. He thinks of Raven, and how much she might enjoy a few moments here with him. Then he thinks of those CIA agents that he had just met. The clouds change just a little bit when his thoughts change, briefly darkening. The smile fades, just a little, and is replaced with curiosity and a bit of concern.

He turns on a heel and looks around. He's never had a dream be so vivid. ]

[[ ooc; yaaaaaay. finally first posting. Also! permissions posts are good for telepaths. You can also note here on yes or no on mind-reading. :) ]]

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Mine, once.

But you're here. Did you die?

I did. [She says this simply, as if it's not the horrifying part.

It isn't. The horrifying part had been that the one who destroyed them all was supposed to be their light and their hope. The horrifying part had been that everything ended. The horrifying part had been that it began to repeat.]

I was reborn much later.

I am sorry.

[Empty words, and she does not answer them directly. She has no need of pity.]

That's why I speak the way I do about this.

I don't completely understand, though.

Separating yourself from it...is it difficult?

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[She pauses. A few years ago - perhaps even as close as a few months ago - she'd have insisted immediately that this wasn't a personal matter. It can't be.

But it is. Everything she hates, accuses, and suspects the princess of, really comes down to the princess - Usagi - and her.

Besides, it is possible that anyone could separate herself from the destruction of her world?]

I'm part of it. I fought that war in the past, and I fought this time, too.

[ Charles never understood how people like you and Erik did it. He couldn't separate himself from his small defeats. ]

The same war?

Yes. The same people were revived to fight the same battle.

It needed to end, don't you think?

Seems kind of tedious and sad to me.

That's why that Fate was broken. [There's a grim satisfaction in this much, at least. One way, or the other, the past is ended.

Except, perhaps, in the hearts of those who battled, who still struggle with the toll that fighting and death take on a soul.]

I'm impressed. [ Smile. ]

There are times anything is acceptable, to stop something even more horrible. That's all.

I don't know that I agree.

One person isn't worth everyone else's lives combined.

I can't condone the murder of anyone.

I don't need you to condone it.

No, of course not. [ Sigh. ]

I can't live my life by what someone else will think of it. [Not anymore. She'd spent the first fourteen years of it living it for others, worrying about their view of her. Now? She'll simply make the world to suit her.]

I don't. Never have. [ Charles has always been a rather independent person. ]

And yet you dream of something like peace? You'd need every heart in your world to agree to that feeling, or it wouldn't happen.

[She's seen that only happen once - and it hadn't been for peace. Quite the opposite, the people of Earth had come together for the power to repel their enemy.]

Doesn't mean I won't.

[Her lips shape a single word.]

Stubborn.

[She says it like something good.]

Incredibly. [ Chuckles. ]

That's a better trait to rely on.

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