[ Charles is silent before he moves closer, prying Erik's fingers away from his knuckles. He knew that answer. ]
Were you angry with me?
[ Did you want to bury me too? he had wondered. Charles has stopped believing that he has some special connection to Erik, that he could change or make Erik do anything he didn't want to. It had been fantasy in his mind and the problem with the mind is that it conjures all kinds of beliefs that never hold up. It's tempered now.
But this . . . he still stumbles with. They had dealt with false gods and inhuman creatures. En-Sabah-Nur had just been one that came to their home. ]
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Were you angry with me?
[ Did you want to bury me too? he had wondered. Charles has stopped believing that he has some special connection to Erik, that he could change or make Erik do anything he didn't want to. It had been fantasy in his mind and the problem with the mind is that it conjures all kinds of beliefs that never hold up. It's tempered now.
But this . . . he still stumbles with. They had dealt with false gods and inhuman creatures. En-Sabah-Nur had just been one that came to their home. ]