"Right." Uh-huh. He's just going to pretend he gets it but he's not sure if he's being made fun of or if this is just who Topher is. He's leaning towards the latter, though. The American seems genuinely nice, and he relaxes a little.
"That'll take some getting used to, I think. Like I said, I'm not from a big town. People didn't come and go." Except for the farmers and Chukchis, but the longer he can keep a lid on being biracial the better. It's not something he's comfortable admitting to with guys; the most prejudice of his classmates back home had been male. Women were much more open to the concept, probably due to the romanticization of that kind of thing in their mind.
"I have a healing factor, telekinesis, and, um, I sort of have telepathy. Telepathy is hard for me to work with. It only seems to work in emergencies."
Is that a bad power set? What's a good power? He realizes belatedly there's little he actually knows about mutants beyond folktales and rumors from Chukotka.
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"That'll take some getting used to, I think. Like I said, I'm not from a big town. People didn't come and go." Except for the farmers and Chukchis, but the longer he can keep a lid on being biracial the better. It's not something he's comfortable admitting to with guys; the most prejudice of his classmates back home had been male. Women were much more open to the concept, probably due to the romanticization of that kind of thing in their mind.
"I have a healing factor, telekinesis, and, um, I sort of have telepathy. Telepathy is hard for me to work with. It only seems to work in emergencies."
Is that a bad power set? What's a good power? He realizes belatedly there's little he actually knows about mutants beyond folktales and rumors from Chukotka.