Chateau Grief 256

Shane (Telepathy): Kore, Kore, Kore

Narration(Kore): A front porch sipping tea, junebugs in the twilight.

Shane (Telepathy): Kore!

Narration(Kore): Bouncing through the dust in a truck with our arms crooked out the windows.

Narration(Kore): A woman…—I don’t remember her at all— Shane’s sister…

Narration(Kore): …and how she cooked pasta over an electric stove.

Narration(Kore): Thousands of tons of stone rock back and forth over our heads.

Narration(Kore): The lives of the five hundred and thirty two people in the palace…depend on my ability to match a darting mouse…pounce on him, hold down his unpredictable patterns of thought.

Narration(Kore): Let him thrash until he exhausts his telepathy. Inconsolable.

Narration(Kore): Where the hell is Yes? Why isn’t he here yet?

Narration(Kore): Shane’s telepathy is so very faint compared to my own, but I can’t even begin to control him.

Narration(Kore): I can barely fight him back. He’s outmaneuvering my mind immediately the moment I think I have a solid hold on him.

Narration(Kore): A terrible realization begins to dawn on me…

Narration(Kore): Thanos can never go back.

Author Notes:

Now that you've figured out why Xander lives on an isolated island, Kore...  

characters: Kore, Shane

Episode Recap:  

Kore and Shane are having a bad day. Day of judgment, day of grief. Shane is bouncing around visions of things and a history that Kore’s just beginning to remember. Kore is trying to keep the house from falling down and she’s having trouble. Xander is nowhere to be found. Apparently Shane is quite capable of pulling together enough power that Kore can’t counter it, even though she’s confident that her telepathy is stronger than his. So this is all damage control from here on out I guess. If only she’d been paying attention when Xander was going to all those drastic measures to calm his mind down. I think Kore’s making it worse actually.