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[xprofessor]

I wonder if anyone here would care to assist me with an experiment.

All you need is your location, your mind, and perhaps two or three minutes of your time.

[ Xavier is testing the effective range of communicatory telepathy. He's currently in the harbor, northeast corner of BN, as far away from land as one can get without actually getting on a

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[myheartglows]

I can help you.

[he can be super awesome helpful, just you wait]

[talentd_tongue]

[That extra pause - just enough to be something outside of the routine.]

Tony... did the Professor do anything? Do you feel different?

[myheartglows]

[A whisper, a breath--] Yes.

[He looks ... happy. And sad, at the same time. He's a Doll, he speaks with the wording of one, but there's more to him now. He tells her this as though it's something wonderful, something he can't quite even believe happening.]

I feel better.

[talentd_tongue]

[Better. He'd done it. He'd gone in and messed with Tony's brain. What if this screwed things up? He was supposed to be laid out in a very specific way so he could be imprinted, so that eventually they could put his own mind back in. What if altering his brain now messed with that?

She picked up her comm device, since she couldn't feel the telepath in her mind.]

What did you do?

[xprofessor]

/Only what he asked me to.

Less than what he asked me to, in fact./

[talentd_tongue]

/Specifically. What did you change?/

[She's worried. He can probably feel that. She doesn't know exactly how the technology works, and she can't know what he's done to Tony's mind. If they're no longer compatible for some reason, they might never get him back.]

[xprofessor]

/You're thinking like I altered some deep brain structure. I didn't. I lit up a few pathways, nerves that seemed as though they should be connected. And he asked me for help./

[talentd_tongue]

/Can you change it back? Before he goes in for his treatments, before we need to work on him, can you put him back the way you found him?

Do you remember it? Can you switch him back and forth without hurting him?/

[xprofessor]

/Easy enough, I suppose./