While Wanda talks, he's unconsciously leaned forward as well to mirror her as he listens, elbows propped against the edge of the table and chin tipped pensively into his hand.
Strange respects her more for that honest (and complicated) answer. Something pat and trite would have been an over-simplification, and a ducking of the truth. There was no possible way her feelings about this particular ability would have been simple. And he catches that self-deprecating beat — a lot nicer than being in mine — but doesn't know what to do about it just yet. Files it away for later consideration.
"I'm... familiar with immoderation," Strange says, with that rueful twist to his mouth which came from painful experience. "And it's particularly easy to get greedy with magic, I think. Obviously I can't do the same things you can, but I felt the same way — tempted — when I first started plumbing the possibilities. Like drinking from a fire-hose. How noisy is it by default? Do you have to consciously work to block others out, or do you have to consciously work to hear them?"
Out of all the spells and abilities and relics available to him, mind-reading had never been on the table. Even the Ancient One hadn't been able to literally peer into others' thoughts: she'd just been wise, with the canny intuition which came from centuries of reading people.
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Strange respects her more for that honest (and complicated) answer. Something pat and trite would have been an over-simplification, and a ducking of the truth. There was no possible way her feelings about this particular ability would have been simple. And he catches that self-deprecating beat — a lot nicer than being in mine — but doesn't know what to do about it just yet. Files it away for later consideration.
"I'm... familiar with immoderation," Strange says, with that rueful twist to his mouth which came from painful experience. "And it's particularly easy to get greedy with magic, I think. Obviously I can't do the same things you can, but I felt the same way — tempted — when I first started plumbing the possibilities. Like drinking from a fire-hose. How noisy is it by default? Do you have to consciously work to block others out, or do you have to consciously work to hear them?"
Out of all the spells and abilities and relics available to him, mind-reading had never been on the table. Even the Ancient One hadn't been able to literally peer into others' thoughts: she'd just been wise, with the canny intuition which came from centuries of reading people.