Thank you. [ If he keeps complimenting Charles like this he's never going to be able to deflate his ego. Setting the tome back in its place, fingers trailing over the spine before they drift to another, the cover slightly darker and less well worn. Charles doesn't particularly enjoy looking at this one, but a thread is connecting Charles' past to Erik, and showing him the less bright corners is just as acceptable as the reverse, especially if it helps Erik to know his history, his power awakening wasn't the only one fraught with trouble. And he's already been told what it was that happened, but looking at it is different.

Coming down with it, Charles is smiling faintly and responding in his uniquely academic way. ] Like anything, it took practice. At a certain point, I realized that keeping my own memories separated from others' was going to be necessary, so I needed a system of organization that I not only understood, but made it simple to weed out the right things when they got mixed in. Otherwise, I'd have a scrambled head, you see.