Humans would never stop being curious creatures. They always needed to know - how something worked, how it came to be, how it existed - and never seemed satisfied until they knew. It got them into trouble, it taught them pieces of the universe, it made them who they were as a species. Charles was not only not above that but always on the front of it himself, even in this small moment that was a part of something massive. A part of a mental landscape created by a being from another world, seeing creatures and greenery and a place that no human would ever be otherwise able. It was everything he could have hoped for and then some.
One hand splayed against the wall, unconsciously bracing himself as he heard the quiet sounds and felt the world leave beneath their feet. It was little surprise he was drawn to the gaps, staring out as they moved up in this natural elevator, getting his first glimpses of the leaves of the Pale Tree which was like no tree he had ever seen before. There was the desire to explore it more closely, to feel the texture of the tree that had given birth to a new species, the wish to somehow fly above and see the whole of it at once merely to be able to understand it as a whole instead of trying to sum up its pieces.
But what was happening as they approached took precedence. So many! Charles' grin had returned, looking across everything with that curious light in his eyes and trying to see it all at once. There! The 'children', as his mind dubbed them, those not yet born. The ones he was forbidden from interacting with, lest he influence them somehow. Yet even his wonder over those had to be put aside for seeing even more new... new everything! Creatures like he had never seen and over there, a wilderness that was more vast than anything that remained on Earth and there, his brows shot up at the sight of two topless... women? he wasn't quite certain, they stood upright like a human but looked more like cats. He said nothing, merely stood just outside of the elevator, taking it in.
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One hand splayed against the wall, unconsciously bracing himself as he heard the quiet sounds and felt the world leave beneath their feet. It was little surprise he was drawn to the gaps, staring out as they moved up in this natural elevator, getting his first glimpses of the leaves of the Pale Tree which was like no tree he had ever seen before. There was the desire to explore it more closely, to feel the texture of the tree that had given birth to a new species, the wish to somehow fly above and see the whole of it at once merely to be able to understand it as a whole instead of trying to sum up its pieces.
But what was happening as they approached took precedence. So many! Charles' grin had returned, looking across everything with that curious light in his eyes and trying to see it all at once. There! The 'children', as his mind dubbed them, those not yet born. The ones he was forbidden from interacting with, lest he influence them somehow. Yet even his wonder over those had to be put aside for seeing even more new... new everything! Creatures like he had never seen and over there, a wilderness that was more vast than anything that remained on Earth and there, his brows shot up at the sight of two topless... women? he wasn't quite certain, they stood upright like a human but looked more like cats. He said nothing, merely stood just outside of the elevator, taking it in.