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Elspeth does not at all feel the way her mama does about mindreading. She is in fact rather the opposite. So she thinks nothing of accepting Downside's admin's invitation to visit and see whether judgesight picks up the memory dump she carries around in her head. Jane drops her right there - Elspeth has her own Janegem, a little yellow charm hanging from a choker she wears - and she goes to visit the admin.
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It is still not possible to visit the admin without the appropriate permissions, but since Elspeth is invited, she has no trouble teleporting to the room at the top of the tower.
The admin looks at her.
"Interesting," she says. "I only receive what you yourself have processed."
The admin looks at her.
"Interesting," she says. "I only receive what you yourself have processed."
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The admin blinks.
"Interesting," she repeats thoughtfully. "The power that collected most of that is not quite exactly like judgesight, but it's very close. And there's no loss of fidelity at all from being passed back and forth."
"Interesting," she repeats thoughtfully. "The power that collected most of that is not quite exactly like judgesight, but it's very close. And there's no loss of fidelity at all from being passed back and forth."
her_imperial_radiance
"I don't think my power would tolerate loss of fidelity, sendingwise. It'd be inaccurate. And Aro didn't have that problem either, so neither did Addy."
her_imperial_radiance
"What would I do with it? My way of fake-resurrecting people caused all kinds of headaches, and I'm bad enough at keeping secrets I'm probably the last person anyone wants staring into their soul."
her_imperial_radiance
"Besides, Jane has it and she's a friend of the family."
her_imperial_radiance
"So if it's ever important to Aro somebody, Jane can do it."
her_imperial_radiance
"I guess that's true. Well, you can give it to me if you want, I don't have to use it I guess. But can you make it so Addy can't copy it? I don't think anybody but Addy wants that."
her_imperial_radiance
"I guess that's it, unless there's, like, tourist attractions here?"
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"Not many," she says. "You might find it interesting to watch from the roof of the tower when the sky switches."
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The ceiling above them becomes transparent. The sky above that is split down the middle as though cut with a knife, one side showing day, the other showing night. The line between them precisely follows the - equally straight on average - cliffs that bisect the landscape beneath.
"The sky switches," the admin confirms.
"The sky switches," the admin confirms.
her_imperial_radiance
"Okay. I'll go hang out in the Bells' office till then and then go have a looksee," Elspeth says. "I have no idea what it'll do to my sleep cycle, so, Jane, after I've seen that, just go ahead and send me home if I fall asleep?"