[ Cynicism is anathema to Charles' view, and on Erik's request, he has tried to imagine the country that was engulfed by the Red Scare & overcame it moving on to throwing mutants down as though they were nothing more than lambs led to slaughter, but the picture doesn't form. Injustices visited on victims of unfair law have eventually been overturned or declawed, and Charles' faith in history and the rightness of where justice ultimately lands remains unshaken, that even if things come to a dark and caged corner now, it doesn't mean such things will continue unabated for the rest of their natural lives. Maybe past when he and Erik are long dead.
Charles' attention shifts from his own quagmire to Erik's movement away from the mansion, his heart slowly climbing into his throat for fear that he's realized their differences aren't going to be reconciled and he's finally decided to go for good. ]
Where are you going? [ Internally wincing at how weak that sounds, he partly wishes that it wouldn't hurt so much to pull himself back from Erik for a little while, to shut everyone out just so Charles can be alone and have quiet so he can flush his system of this wretchedness, but that'd exacerbate things with Erik to a horrible degree. He'd know it was his fault is Charles' voice suddenly stopped whispering at the back of his thoughts. ]
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Charles' attention shifts from his own quagmire to Erik's movement away from the mansion, his heart slowly climbing into his throat for fear that he's realized their differences aren't going to be reconciled and he's finally decided to go for good. ]
Where are you going? [ Internally wincing at how weak that sounds, he partly wishes that it wouldn't hurt so much to pull himself back from Erik for a little while, to shut everyone out just so Charles can be alone and have quiet so he can flush his system of this wretchedness, but that'd exacerbate things with Erik to a horrible degree. He'd know it was his fault is Charles' voice suddenly stopped whispering at the back of his thoughts. ]