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TELEPATHY • HOLOGRAM • LETTERS • DELIVERIES • ACTION

✿ Rubi-telepathy (easy mode) feels different to ✦ Wanda-telepathy (hard mode).

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[telepathy]

( Easier to survive here, with them, than alone. )

[ if that means not using her power to protect herself from them, or testing it on them, or even show it to them, then ... so be it. she'll be a little shadow of herself, something palatable. she learned from her mistake. ]

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( You won't be alone. I'll always be here with you. )

[ And for her, but Wanda feels that there's something a little more powerful knowing someone will always be by your side. ]

( If it will make you feel better, we can ask who would like to help you learn. No one can hate you for asking for permission. )

[ And the townspeople seem more willing to help the Void-touched than the civilians Wanda bumped shoulders with at home. (Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that their town has remained standing unlike the cities the Avengers have desecrated without looking back.) ]

[telepathy]

[ it goes a long way, what wanda offers. especially when paired with the fact that she knows she has aristaeus and john. she has people, even if she doesn't keep this town, this community. she will have people.

but it's also not quite the same as having a place. so she has to sit with it. ]

( I will think. )

[explosion]

( You let me know what you want to do when you're ready. )

[ It's thought gently. ]

( This isn't something we can do in a memory. It won't prepare you… I don't want you to get hurt if you try it. )

[ However that hurt may manifest—on herself or on the person she cares about. It won't show her the complexities of someone's response when Wanda is not subduing them. And while Wanda thinks to offer that as an alternative, if Mavis is afraid of being attacked when weakened, Wanda doesn't want to warm her with a butter knife when she needs a steak knife. ]