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Moment of Awesome - Hope Abbott/Trance: During a training session with Jean Grey, Hope remembers a past trauma.


"So since I am not a telepath this is not the domain of the astral plane where I am at my strongest? And there are other areas where I might be though?" Hope tilted her head thoughtfully. "It makes sense that my abilities would work differently. What is there at the lower levels?"

Jean paused. "It can be really tricky to navigate. Sort of like...taking your airplane close to the ground without landing. Or...like I don't know...being a ghost while still having a body. It can be dangerous. Most telepaths tend to stay up here."

"Taking the plane close to the ground... so it's closer to the real world? Or at least a representation of it?" A flash of memory made Hope shudder slightly suddenly.

"Sort of..." Jean tilted her head. "Are you okay?"

"I... I was just reminded... I think I have been on the level of the astral plane that you just described... the first time I was drawn here..." Hope shuddered again, but she firmly retook herself. "It's just... but I cannot... the previous you..."

Jean fell silent a moment. "The previous me did what?" she said. It was a grab bag which her she was talking about, the good or bad?

"Are you sure you wish to know?" Hope waited for a moment for Jean to speak up and protest, but when none came she continued: "My introduction to the astral plane was not exactly gentle... During a mission I was caught in a tidal wave and nearly drowned. My companions managed to pull me out, but my mind had somehow separated from my body and ended up here. I was unable to get back and the past you came to find me... she found me in, what I think, is the level of the astral plane you just described. I don't remember much of it, but I know it took a bit of psychic surgery to get me back into my body..."

Almost subconsciously, the world around them started to throw a little lusher, with beautiful flowers and trees, trying to soothe. Jean let out a breath. "I imagine that was a very scary situation," she said.

"With the things we can do, sometimes our mind has a way of being able to escape in the face of death even when our body can't," she said, her mind drifting momentarily to Quentin. She smiled at Hope. "I'm glad the other me was able to help you get that sorted out. Are you afraid to go there again?"

Hope paused a moment, reigning in her mind even more firmly. "More deeply uneasy than scared." She finally spoke. "The circumstances are quite different and this time I am not alone. Nor am I the same person I was then."

"What's causing the unease then?" Jean said.

"From what I do remember.... the images of the people frozen in time as the tidal wave hit or just after..." Hope explained after taking stock of herself. "They are rather haunting. I know that is not what I'll be seeing now, but it's like the threat is still there."