[continuations with tiny!Charles]

[mind_over_metal]

[so short and tiny and cute etc.]

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[godwinner]

[ is still for a split second, then closes the distance to his raised arm and hauls Charles out of the way just as the book snaps at the space where he was standing ]

[mind_over_metal]

*apparently oblivious to Erik's pause (and the reason for it), his head whips around at the snapping noise to stare at the vicious book*

That's- The book!

[godwinner]

[ bemused ]

Careful.

[mind_over_metal]

*not fighting Erik's grip on his arm at all*

Are they alive?

[godwinner]

Things here do seem to have a mind of their own.

[ releases him, still watching carefully, though not for any errant books ]

[mind_over_metal]

*start moving slowly toward where the book now lays twitching on the ground, in the way that one would approach a skittish animal*

What else? Has a mind of its own like that, that is.

[godwinner]

Your cabin, for one.

I'm not going to pull you out of the way if it attacks again.

[mind_over_metal]

*not stopping*

I know to expect it this time, though.

What does the cabin do? It didn't seem strange last night.

[godwinner]

You might say it's rather protective. It won't let anyone in if neither you or Leto are with them.

[mind_over_metal]

Oh. That's funny.

*just slightly more than arm's-reach away from the book, he slowly starts to reach out a hand toward it, eyes intensely focused on his target*

Where do you live?

[godwinner]

[ watching just as closely, but not moving a muscle ]

Nowhere.

[mind_over_metal]

*freezes when the book snaps in his direction but doesn't draw his hand back. waits a moment, then takes another step toward it and slowly lowers himself into a crouch*

That's impossible. You have to be somewhere.

[godwinner]

Right now, I'm sleeping over the cabin where the rest of the mutants live, but it's temporary.

[mind_over_metal]

Santo said that they all live together! And you're there, too!

*scoots forward close enough to touch -- and the book flips around to snap at him-

-so he full-body tackles it*

[godwinner]

[ that startles a laugh out of him ]

[mind_over_metal]

*rolls over onto his back, hugging the book tightly to his chest with both arms -- and looks up at Erik, a little surprised in turn, before bursting into a grin back at him*

[godwinner]

What're you going to do with it now that you've caught it?

[mind_over_metal]

*apparently, he could smile even more brightly than that*

Keep it. For a while, at least. It's a library book, I can only borrow it.

[godwinner]

It won't let you read it.

[mind_over_metal]

It's alive. There's more to it than just reading it. Besides, maybe it will let me, eventually.

[godwinner]

I suppose you could try being nice to it.

[mind_over_metal]

*one arm loosening enough so that he can rub his hand soothingly over the book's back cover, like he's stroking a cat*

Well, I'm not going to be mean to it, whether I can read it or not.

[godwinner]

It might not make a difference either way. You don't know that it's truly alive.

[mind_over_metal]

Does it really matter?

[godwinner]

...how do you intend to keep it under control while you have it? I doubt it'd survive an encounter with Leto.