Peace and Quiet [OPEN]

[tubeborn.livejournal.com]

Mewtwo had been searching for somewhere less busy, and he found it in the form of the city. It was more open and somewhat cooler, but the most important thing was that there were fewer people. There were some, true, but it wasn't as much of a big rush of strange beings as there was in the main living area.

He could think here.

Probably his biggest concern was checking that his powers were still working properly. There was something... off. He had to figure out what it was.

The catlike creature could be found on a grassy hill, floating with eyes closed just above its crest. His legs and arms were folded up almost in a fetal position, his tail swishing slowly back and forth behind him. As he meditated, he was focusing on the grass below. If someone stopped to watch, they might notice he was slowly flattening out all of the blades of grass on the hill a handful at a time from the center down.

It was something to do while he thought, and it was a test for his precision to see how badly it had been damaged.

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Having been used to keeping his telepathic powers under control (especially since with the special connections he shared with his brothers - in which case a small slip up would wind up in Jr. sending his thoughts to Gaignun. Something he did often by accident, every now and then), Jr. was used to the others on Stacy who had similar powers to him, and he was pretty good at keeping himself closed off enough that it usually wasn't a problem on a normal level. But it was something he could still feel when near others. And he figured others could sense something similar from him ... especially ones who could sense something like that power, telepath-like ones aside. So in general Jr. never made a big deal of it.

But he felt this as he was walking through the city. It was focused, and powerful, and honestly is peaked his curiosity. So he followed it, and stopped a bit of a distance away from Mewtwo when he spotted him to silently watch what he was doing.

And even though Gaignun or Albedo or anybody from home wasn't there on Stacy with him, years of practice in telepathic control meant Jr.'s mental barriers were more second nature than anything, so up at that moment.

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Mewtwo's area of attention rather narrow at the time and he wasn't on alert for other aware, sheltered minds. However, when Jr.'s guarded mental "presence" came into the range he was focusing on, it immediately attracted his attention.

He reached out mentally and tapped at it, just to see if it would get a response. Or perhaps this person would go away. Mewtwo didn't especially care.

[carrieswar.livejournal.com]

And Jr. felt it, dropping the defense slightly - enough for Mewtwo to be able to communicate with him. Jr. didn't know what Mewtwo was, and though he was cautious as always just in case, he also figured that not knowing what he was, he might have been a creature that could only communicate that way.

But Jr. was used to telepathic speech with Gaignun. And though he didn't mind hearing people this way, he himself opted to speak out loud.

"Uh, hey!" he called out to the Pokemon. "Sorry about that. Was just passing by."

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Oh. Another human, now that he heard it speak. Mewtwo lifted his focus off the grass and opened his eyes to get a better look.

< You are psychically aware, > said Mewtwo, his voice blooming across the psychic link now that Jr.'s mind was open to listen. He'd opened up for a stranger, how curious. Mewtwo would have used more caution than that himself.

< You are interesting. Who are you? >

[carrieswar.livejournal.com]

"Sorta, yeah," he confirmed. Jr. wasn't really one to talk about who and what he was, even on Stacy. But he'd met (and felt) many others on the crew who had different kinds of psychic abilities. He was used to the different, anyway, from the foundation back home. And here it seemed a lot less so.

"I'm Jr.," he introduced himself after that, taking a couple of steps toward Mewtwo. "Gaignun Jr. You're pretty interesting, too! Cool-looking, anyway."