[A flash of relief crossed Charles' face in spite of Javik's manner. Finally, someone who's encountered something similar.] I'm not human. I'm a member of an evolving sub-species. And by the sounds of it, I can do what your kind can do - I'm a telepath.

[He does his utmost best to focus and keep his speech ordered.]

I think - I was exposed to something several weeks before the battle. I lost control of my abilities in a disastrous way and then there was the entire...everything, in the gem. [Overwhelming, to say the least.] And now - it's like the volume in my head is wrong. One minute things will be silent, the next I'm getting everything at once. The things I saw well up in my mind like they're happening in front of me. When I do sleep, I have nightmares. But I don't think they're mine.