John glances up from where he's jotted a few notes to remind himself later and responds in kind without hesitation: It's fine for her to go.
The implied trust is conscious and the apparent ease with telepathy is not. Behind the fact he seems accustomed to the communication lurk some experiences and memories that have to do with other telepaths, chronological in order of recent exposure. There's Martha, of whom John has an overlapping image of a young black girl and a brain floating in a jar; there are five young blond women who look like less mature versions of Emma Frost; and before that, of course, much vaguer memories of Jean Grey and Charles' older self. And because Martha was kind, he thinks of the hours of telepathic interrogation he's gone through to work for SHIELD more as training. It was necessary and it didn't hurt any more than it had to.
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The implied trust is conscious and the apparent ease with telepathy is not. Behind the fact he seems accustomed to the communication lurk some experiences and memories that have to do with other telepaths, chronological in order of recent exposure. There's Martha, of whom John has an overlapping image of a young black girl and a brain floating in a jar; there are five young blond women who look like less mature versions of Emma Frost; and before that, of course, much vaguer memories of Jean Grey and Charles' older self. And because Martha was kind, he thinks of the hours of telepathic interrogation he's gone through to work for SHIELD more as training. It was necessary and it didn't hurt any more than it had to.