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x_cable... my powers are back. They seem to be in full working order, except for some slightly shaky shields. Although I will be spending some serious quality time in the Danger Room under my wife's gentle supervision this week to see just how fully the TK has come back. Obviously, I can still manage my exoskeleton, as the flying around for six hours yesterday proved. (I still can't believe I was flying around the lake for six hours. It didn't feel like six hours.)
One of the Stepfords asked me today why a bird. It took quite a while to explain Askani to her, and then she threw me for a loop by pointing out that it was awfully realistically bird-like for a psi-construct. Which got me thinking - Tim, my friend who was also a telekinetic with an exoskeleton, had a very stylized human-shaped exoskeleton. Not at all like my firebird - which is stylized, but which, as Sophie pointed out, still manages to move like a bird.
I thought first that maybe I've spent long enough around Bella that I was absorbing some of her mannerisms and reflecting them in the exoskeleton unconsciously. But I had Moira stand out on the dock and watch me for a bit this afternoon so that I could watch through her eyes, there being no mirror around here quite big enough... and it hit me. My exoskeleton isn't a Bella clone.
It's a golden eagle. The year I spent in Kazakhstan, I hunted with a golden eagle more times than I can count. I'd watch him spiraling through the air over the steppe, diving for his prey... I still look back on it as one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. And the way my exoskeleton moves, its proportions... it's a golden eagle.
I started using the exoskeleton in memory of some of the people I'd loved and lost. It makes me very happy to know that it's something of a tribute to the living, too.
One of the Stepfords asked me today why a bird. It took quite a while to explain Askani to her, and then she threw me for a loop by pointing out that it was awfully realistically bird-like for a psi-construct. Which got me thinking - Tim, my friend who was also a telekinetic with an exoskeleton, had a very stylized human-shaped exoskeleton. Not at all like my firebird - which is stylized, but which, as Sophie pointed out, still manages to move like a bird.
I thought first that maybe I've spent long enough around Bella that I was absorbing some of her mannerisms and reflecting them in the exoskeleton unconsciously. But I had Moira stand out on the dock and watch me for a bit this afternoon so that I could watch through her eyes, there being no mirror around here quite big enough... and it hit me. My exoskeleton isn't a Bella clone.
It's a golden eagle. The year I spent in Kazakhstan, I hunted with a golden eagle more times than I can count. I'd watch him spiraling through the air over the steppe, diving for his prey... I still look back on it as one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. And the way my exoskeleton moves, its proportions... it's a golden eagle.
I started using the exoskeleton in memory of some of the people I'd loved and lost. It makes me very happy to know that it's something of a tribute to the living, too.
