It...isn't very comfortable, even for them, I think. But it was either this, they explain it all to me, or they find someone to read it to me. It was the only option they would accept.
[Her mind is too occupied to actually read their thoughts when she's borrowing their knowledge of the language, and perhaps they take some comfort in that. They've come to mostly see her as some great puzzle to take apart and poke, but there's always a faint whiff of unease. She is still a Midgardian, after all, and as far as they're concerned, her peculiarities shouldn't even be possible.
She thinks she detects some hint of jealousy too - as if she didn't pay dearly for this.]
They had me start with a text on grounding.
[Which isn't surprising. She's been getting by mostly through grounding herself in another person's presence, but here, surrounded by so many strangers, she has nothing. And until the fear of another backlash explosion isn't constantly nagging at her, Wanda will never be able to access higher levels of power. Loki isn't the only one to notice how hesitant she is to use the scarlet directly.]
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It...isn't very comfortable, even for them, I think. But it was either this, they explain it all to me, or they find someone to read it to me. It was the only option they would accept.
[Her mind is too occupied to actually read their thoughts when she's borrowing their knowledge of the language, and perhaps they take some comfort in that. They've come to mostly see her as some great puzzle to take apart and poke, but there's always a faint whiff of unease. She is still a Midgardian, after all, and as far as they're concerned, her peculiarities shouldn't even be possible.
She thinks she detects some hint of jealousy too - as if she didn't pay dearly for this.]
They had me start with a text on grounding.
[Which isn't surprising. She's been getting by mostly through grounding herself in another person's presence, but here, surrounded by so many strangers, she has nothing. And until the fear of another backlash explosion isn't constantly nagging at her, Wanda will never be able to access higher levels of power. Loki isn't the only one to notice how hesitant she is to use the scarlet directly.]