Good.  People can read you like I can, you couldn't keep it a secret and it'd get you hurt. 

...That's going to cause problems. I don't mind you reading me but if people with social conservatism are judging me for what I'm thinking things are going to go south fast.

Yeah, even people without particularly rebellious inclinations usually keep more thoughts private than you do. 

How?

You just, ah, differentiate. Like personally I imagine some thoughts standing in the Treelight and some in the shade of a tree, I know lots of more academically-inclined people have more academically-inclined metaphors, and when you think you practice the habit of storing your thoughts privately if you want them private, and then over time it becomes routine. Did no one teach you as a kid?

No one could read my mind when I was a kid.

Really? 

Unfortunately, yes.

I don't think that's a paradise thing either. I think we're just super different kinds of people. 

Really? Because I think this might have been on my top ten list.

Telepathy?

Yes.

Wow. Fair enough, then. What exactly about it? 

She sends him a burst of affection. That. And--stuff like that. If there isn't properly a word for something I don't have to awkwardly stumble around it, and there's no unfortunate misunderstandings because I chose my words wrong, and I don't have to try to describe things by analogy--she remembers what it was like to kiss him with honey on his lips. I couldn't really tell someone what something like that was like.

Don't go around telling too many people anyway, they'll be unimpressed with me or the wrong kind of impressed with me. 

That was an example. I shan't be sharing that with most people. What do you mean by the wrong kind of impressed?

D'you want more specifically than 'people suck'?

I'm actually kind of curious but not enough to press if you'd rather not talk about it.

So, like, two perspectives on kissing outside marriage. One is 'don't do it; the Prince Tyelcormo found some lost vulnerable girls in the woods and kissed them and that was a pretty dubious thing to do at best'. The other one is 'since it's not allowed, you're a pretty valuable person if you can convince lots of people to do it'.

You have a stigma on kissing outside of marriage? That is conservative. And kind of hilarious.

I am glad you're entertained. 

Sorry. Only funny when you haven't had to live with it, probably.

I come out of it all right, I've kissed lots of people. But it is mostly stupid, not funny, to me. 

Yeah. I mean, stigma on extramarital sex at least makes some sense, you could get pregnant..

What?