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x_staffSo I'm going to do my part in the cause of open communication here. Succinctly put, Charles has asked me to assist him with Manuel's training. Charles will continue to be in charge of the whole enterprise, of course, and will continue to work with Manuel on theory and ethics in particular. What I'll be doing is working with him on the active side of his power, to give him the opportunity to practice. Shielding is only one side of the coin, after all, and there are a number of reasons why I'm suited to do this.
Firstly, the training I've received from the Askani will allow me to act as my own spotter. I can wall off a portion of my mind so that Manuel can't affect it, and if anything goes wrong while he's practicing projection, that part of me can react quickly to head the situation off at the pass. Also, having that training and being a telepath myself, I'll be able to avoid or at least recover a lot more quickly from any of the lingering side effects that a headblind person would suffer.
I know a number of you probably have doubts about the wisdom of doing this, and there are probably a few of you who wonder why the hell I'm back doing it, of all the potential candidates. All I can say on the latter is that I'm not the same person I was last summer while I was working with Manuel. My level of training and self-confidence is much higher, and I trust that we all realize Charles wouldn't have asked me to do this if he wasn't convinced that I'd completely conquered my phobia about empaths. Which I have.
As for the former, we can't leave him half-trained simply because we're afraid of what he might do with his abilities. The threats he was tossing around last week aside, he's come a long way from the young man I dealt with last summer. He knows he's misused his abilities in the past and he's suffered the consequences of that. If we offer him a way forward he'll be more likely to want to do it right. More likely to trust us.
I'm not afraid of doing this - I believe it should be done - and I'm not afraid of him. In the end, my conscience is clear.
Firstly, the training I've received from the Askani will allow me to act as my own spotter. I can wall off a portion of my mind so that Manuel can't affect it, and if anything goes wrong while he's practicing projection, that part of me can react quickly to head the situation off at the pass. Also, having that training and being a telepath myself, I'll be able to avoid or at least recover a lot more quickly from any of the lingering side effects that a headblind person would suffer.
I know a number of you probably have doubts about the wisdom of doing this, and there are probably a few of you who wonder why the hell I'm back doing it, of all the potential candidates. All I can say on the latter is that I'm not the same person I was last summer while I was working with Manuel. My level of training and self-confidence is much higher, and I trust that we all realize Charles wouldn't have asked me to do this if he wasn't convinced that I'd completely conquered my phobia about empaths. Which I have.
As for the former, we can't leave him half-trained simply because we're afraid of what he might do with his abilities. The threats he was tossing around last week aside, he's come a long way from the young man I dealt with last summer. He knows he's misused his abilities in the past and he's suffered the consequences of that. If we offer him a way forward he'll be more likely to want to do it right. More likely to trust us.
I'm not afraid of doing this - I believe it should be done - and I'm not afraid of him. In the end, my conscience is clear.
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