[continuations with tiny!Charles]

[mind_over_metal]

[so short and tiny and cute etc.]

Comments

[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.

[mind_over_metal]

I'll figure something out.

[godwinner]

If you insist.

[mind_over_metal]

*clambers onto his feet, his one arm still wrapped snugly around the book and scooping up the sex manual from where it had been dropped with the other*

So why are you on top of their cabin?

[godwinner]

[ matter-of-factly ]

There's a robot called a Sentinel there that's designed to kill mutants.

[mind_over_metal]

Who put it there?

[godwinner]

Whoever or whatever makes these things happen here. The same thing that made you like this, I think. But it comes from our world.

[mind_over_metal]

*and as logic finishes constructing a new thought from the information that he'd been given...*

Why are you out with it? You're a mutant, too.

[godwinner]

[ with his expression slightly pained ]

Wouldn't you rather know why it exists?

[mind_over_metal]

I'd rather you answered my question.

[godwinner]

[ a very deliberate pause before he speaks ]

You don't need to worry about me, Charles.

[mind_over_metal]

Why not?

[godwinner]

For one thing, I've a unique advantage over robots.

[ he moves his hand toward a pocket but doesn't actually reach inside -- instead three ball bearings float out, one by one, and he turns his palm up as they begin to spin in a circle above it. ]

[mind_over_metal]

*there are no words, only complete enchantment*

[godwinner]

[ just smiles and watches him ]

[mind_over_metal]

*watching intently, though not just concentrating on the things that he's seeing with his eyes*

So is it... metal things? Or... that's not exactly it...

[godwinner]

[ the balls start curving around his hand in various directions, their ellipticals crossing but the balls never colliding. ]

Electromagnetism.

[mind_over_metal]

But that's basically... everything except for gravity.

[godwinner]

I can't control everything.

[mind_over_metal]

No one can. But just physically speaking, though I'm not an expert at physics and besides, I'm only ten, but there's... so much you can do. As far as your imagination can take you. And imagination encircles the world.

[godwinner]

[ the balls stop moving, clacking again each other in his palm as he wraps his hand around them ]

Perhaps I could reach that far.

[mind_over_metal]

How far have you tried so far?

[godwinner]

Not very. It's challenging enough with things that are close to me. But I can feel the Earth's magnetic field far enough... well, let's just say I've never been lost.