She is. She brought be here when I was ...when our group was left. Did you know each other from ...before?
[She doesn't say 'from Clock' because it only now occurs to her than Jon could have been somewhere after that and before this, or that time could have upended itself for no explicable reason. Stranger things had happened. There were people she knew that Jon had not, and vice versa - parts both had seen and parts only one or the other had ever stepped foot in.]
All right. Breathe deeply, and know that it's all right if this doesn't happen right away. Try not to doubt yourself. Try to ...relax just a little, or better yet, just let go of a small bit of what tension you're holding in your body. A little is all right to let out. You're still safe and you can still be on your guard if you only relax a little.
It's all right to be frustrated, and it might feel very strange to use your eyes ...without using your eyes.
Don't try to warg.
Think about looking around a network, let your mind try and wander a little ways, to look for what might be there on the edges. It might help to think of the little implant doing its job, and just ....finding what you need in the way that Clock would sometimes give you things.
Think about what that might be like, for the little implant, a tiny device that's now part of you to give you what you want from it as easily as handing something over. [He will find his smile returned.] And we're both clever.
[She watches him as she speaks, fumbling a little over how to explain and letting her own mind open and close and move the little bits of information around as she speaks, trying to just do it and be less concerned with what happens.]
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[She doesn't say 'from Clock' because it only now occurs to her than Jon could have been somewhere after that and before this, or that time could have upended itself for no explicable reason. Stranger things had happened. There were people she knew that Jon had not, and vice versa - parts both had seen and parts only one or the other had ever stepped foot in.]
All right. Breathe deeply, and know that it's all right if this doesn't happen right away. Try not to doubt yourself. Try to ...relax just a little, or better yet, just let go of a small bit of what tension you're holding in your body. A little is all right to let out. You're still safe and you can still be on your guard if you only relax a little.
It's all right to be frustrated, and it might feel very strange to use your eyes ...without using your eyes.
Don't try to warg.
Think about looking around a network, let your mind try and wander a little ways, to look for what might be there on the edges. It might help to think of the little implant doing its job, and just ....finding what you need in the way that Clock would sometimes give you things.
Think about what that might be like, for the little implant, a tiny device that's now part of you to give you what you want from it as easily as handing something over. [He will find his smile returned.] And we're both clever.
[She watches him as she speaks, fumbling a little over how to explain and letting her own mind open and close and move the little bits of information around as she speaks, trying to just do it and be less concerned with what happens.]