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So as I'm sure any of you who were looking out the window yesterday can tel...
... 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.