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[seeingscarlet]

We need to talk about what happened last week.

[A week is enough time for the initial shock to have worn off, isn't it? This is important, but they definitely needed recovery time.]

I know what you meant to do, but without a plan, without training working together, people were only going to get hurt. Even the people you want to save or the people you think should be safe.

So I want to change that. I want us to train to fight together so the next time there is trouble we are not so easy to pick off. [She looks like she's about to continue that train of thought, then thinks better of it and shuts her mouth. No, this isn't a safe medium to talk about that, so Wanda settles for something a little milder.] I do not think we will always be safe here.

You do not all know each other, but at home I think we all wanted the same thing. We could build that again here.

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[private; personal feed] ughhhhhHHHHHHHHHH

[seeingscarlet]

[She feels raw and too exposed and all Wanda wants to do is shut off the feed and go hide under her blankets until everything stops being So Much. But that would be an actual cause for concern, and then people might come looking, and she just doesn't have the energy to deal with that right now. She only has the energy for these conversations at all because they're so necessary.]

All we can do is give them tools and hope they won't need them.

[private; personal feed] /lays down tbh

[welcomeprofessor]

[It's here that his voice grows quieter, in the dawning of that realization that she has...more of a valid point than he wants to admit. When she hasn't ever been the only one saying it.

Maybe it really is something he needs to consider?]

They already have them, don't they? [A soft sigh. There's already pain here, pain that been torn back open and rubbed raw and might never scar back over.] It's control they need. Still.

[And he's likely failed everyone in that regard if this is the case.]

[private; personal feed] get the llamas stat

[seeingscarlet]

Control, practice...we need to know our limits.

[That's how people get hurt, right? Overconfidence and no real experience with how one's abilities respond to repeated use. Wanda can keep going indefinitely, for example, but Pietro had to stop and catch his breath eventually.

She can't help but wonder what would have happened if she hadn't been overconfident then. If they had stayed together, would he still be alive today?

If they don't give the others every advantage possible, will Charles find himself in the same position soon, wondering if he could have done something different to save Jean or Kurt or Laura? It's a toxic downward spiral, one Wanda would save him from if she can.]

I don't know what else to do.

[private; personal feed] <3

[welcomeprofessor]

I don't either.

[It's said with a long-suffering sigh, but he's at least no longer arguing. The last time he'd done this, he'd ended up with a couple bodies, several lost friends, a betrayal, and the loss of his legs. He can suffer the latter. It's the losses that still scare him.]

I just wish there was a better alternative.