<hr/><div class="floatleft">(http://cdn.collider.com/wp-content/uploads/patrick-stewart-professor-xavier-x-men.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Professor Charles Xavier<br/><strong>Location:</strong>A Classroom<br/><strong>Date/Time:</strong>Sept. 2nd Mid Afternoon<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Chamber, Songbird, Hourglass<br/><strong>Content:</strong>Charles is waiting for students to arrive<br/><hr/><br/>Charles paid attention to Tess's questions and tried his best to smile. The answer was unfortunately far from what he was sure the girl hoped for. Many students here did not wish for their thoughts and secrets to be exposed, and Charles couldn't blame them.<br/><br/><strong>"Not a stupid question at all,  Tess. Telepathy is highly complex and incredibly varied. Some telepaths can only read thoughts. Some can only implant emotions into others. Some can only create illusions. But some are capable of all of these things, as I am. A powerful enough telepath is capable of seeing everything from your emotions and thoughts to your most distant memories. They may even be able to see things you have forgotten or repressed yourself."</strong><br/><br/>Telepathy itself was still something of a scientific mystery and marvel. It was particularly difficult to pin down how it worked, and had taken years to develop anything like Magneto's helm. But learning to be used to a mind entering your own, and push against it, was not too difficult to begin with. Time to start the lesson off with his simple parlor trick. It was a bit of fun, and let people witness how effective telepathy could be.<br/><br/><strong>"So, you've all noticed your cards. To avoid invading any private thoughts I would like you each to shuffle your deck and pick one. Look at it and return it to the deck. Don't show me, or say what the card is. When you've each picked and memorised your card I will tell you what they were. This will give you a harmless insight into a mind entering your own. If any of you are uncomfortable, you don't have to take part. But I can promise that my control is enough that I will not see anything but the card." </strong><br/><br/>Normally with more, or younger, students this was a bit of fun. But he knew the people in this room had things they wished to keep to themselves, and he didn't want to pressure or upset anyone. Hopefully they would be up for the game, as it was a vital part of starting to understand just what telepathy could do. And understanding how incredible of a tool it is is a necessary step on the road to defending against it.<br/>