She reaches for her journal. "I have learned a theorem to share the perceptions of another," she says. "I used it to see through Gideon's eyes and guide her in fighting a monstrous construct. She was able to see the thanergetic structure that bound it. I was able to speak to her mind."

"I was not able to read her thoughts; it was far more biological than that. I sensed the flex of her muscles and the adrenaline in her blood, the chaos of the temporal lobe."

"Would you consider allowing me to use such a thing? You could see the thanergetic and thalergetic signatures of the world around us, and I could perhaps experience Channeling from within. It might be educational for both of us."