[voice], within the first week of October

[hasapoint]

[You feel something reaching out and touching your mind... Poking it, actually, like a prodding finger. It withdraws and tries a softer, finer touch. That withdraws too, and there's a pause. Looks like Need can't get around her powerloss and covertly use peoples' senses/look into their minds just by using the pearl network. Unfortunate.

After a moment, Need allows her presence to bloom into the connection and make itself known. If you can gauge this kind of thing at all two things are immediately evident. One is that she's very old. Not tired, not fragile, but distant and distorted to the point where her mind doesn't really feel human. The other is that she's female. There's nothing stereotypically feminine there but it's very clear. She's something crushed into a tiny space a very long time ago and also: she/her.]

Someone always figures out how to make a teleson. [Telepathy via technology.] How far does this reach? Does it work between people who haven't met?

[Need is far more accustomed to speaking mind-to-mind than using anything else, so her "voice" has a particular quality to it that I'm gonna keep rendering as italics.]

Where I'm from it's possible to visit other realities, where things might be very different, and be fully embodied in them but one's actual body remains behind. The more difficult part is getting back to it. I wonder if that's happened here.

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[hasapoint]

So you weren't 'psychic' before. Did you get any training in it when you came?

[Need is well aware of the trouble caused by uncontrolled Mind gifts and is immediately concerned. ...She is a teacher in it but isn't going to immediately volunteer.]

[wovensecrets]

... No. [ It might be that she's too stubborn to ask for that, or too used to figuring things out her own way, but she continues. ]

Mostly because I had arrived here in a different form to begin with, so mostly it just seemed like something I should figure out to adapt to myself.

[ And there's probably just a lack of... trust toward most others that's not easy to shake. ]