...Really. That's your criterion?

i mean, i don't want to date the assholes who do beat me up? you just start, y'know, extrapolating. to less shitty people.

How d'you feel about consensual sparring?

awesome, as long as you don't mind me getting off on it just a little bit?

Would I have brought it up in this context if I minded?

makes sense.

He is already so pumped for this.

gotta find a good place on campus for it though.

Psht like I was going to get out of shape, I scoped out the gym before we were enrolled.

nice!

can't wait to weird some people out!

With sparring?

well, yeah. not like a lot of people go to the gym to fight.

If anything they'll probably be weirded out because I'm a girl.

He snickers.

a telepath and a living punching bag walk into the gym and everyone's like 'whoaaa, girls can fight???"

Or "gosh look at that obviously-a-mutant guy conning that not-obviously-a-mutant-chick into letting him beat her up"

Snrk.

conning you into beating me up, more like.

I am walking into this with my eyes wide open.

it's probably a good idea to fight someone with your eyes open, yeah.

Snort.

"--wait. We can probably talk out loud now, huh? I forgot that was a thing for a second."

"We can! I just don't always default to it."

"Yeah, it's a good way to communicate for sure. Just, uh, since your sis is here..."

He knows he might not feel great if he was the odd one out of a telepathic conversation.

"I've been broadcasting everything to her."

Oh no. He really did not intend to give a second recent stranger boner updates.

"Everything she would have wanted to hear," she amends.

Ok, cool, he can exhale then and not just hold his breath until he's dead.

Haha yeah.