Good. [It's a little too loud, but he dutifully ignores it and carefully clears his mind to focus on shields, opening his mind to his friend and trying to explain how he makes it work.
It's strange, he feels vulnerable, and he doesn't love it, but he trusts Erik more than anything, and so he offers up images and explanations that don't really translate well to words, which is part of why just explaining it out loud wouldn't really work. Charles' telepathic shields are almost surprisingly literal - he still sort of thinks of them as shields and suits of armor, castle walls and ramparts, because he'd been young when he'd first figured out how to do this and out of habit he'd kept them. He offers that bit of explanation too, almost ruefully suggesting that Erik can construct whatever works for him, to keep the voices out.]
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It's strange, he feels vulnerable, and he doesn't love it, but he trusts Erik more than anything, and so he offers up images and explanations that don't really translate well to words, which is part of why just explaining it out loud wouldn't really work. Charles' telepathic shields are almost surprisingly literal - he still sort of thinks of them as shields and suits of armor, castle walls and ramparts, because he'd been young when he'd first figured out how to do this and out of habit he'd kept them. He offers that bit of explanation too, almost ruefully suggesting that Erik can construct whatever works for him, to keep the voices out.]