There's good ones and bad ones.

I feel like this'd be demanding even for a good one.

Well, you're probably not wrong. But it couldn't hurt to try, right?

Could if they go public or have us committed or something.

Well, I don't think 'my patient is very pretty and has pointy ears and insists they are a 30,000 year old elf' is going to be very credible, and they'd probably know that, and obviously we'd want to be satisfied that they considered dreamshaping sufficient proof that we're not all crazy before trying to initiate any actual psychiatry...

It's probably doable. Might be worth trying.

I'd volunteer to go first if I wasn't so busy, I think we could all use it.

Idaia, want to try to bring a therapist into the know?

Yeah, it's probably a good idea.

How do we go about it?

Hmm. Look up therapists in the Boston area, talk to them, see if any of them have a locatable internet presence that would give us an idea of their values on a relevant level...

You can do that.

Well, presumably you can do some of the talking, but yes, your primary task here is to snuggle me while I do things on the internet.

I can do that.

I know! You are very good at snuggling me and it is delightful.

Will the therapist think that the clinging is dysfunctional.

Probably depends on the therapist and that kind of thing is why we want to interview them.

Right, fair enough.

Even if this works I wonder what the odds are of getting most of your brothers and dad to go along with it.

I mean, it's not like it'll work for everyone or for no one. Might work for us and not them. Nelyo doesn't need therapy.

Yeah, I don't think modern psychiatry has the tools to handle that.

He'd just fuck up the therapist.

I don't know that that's inevitable but yeah.

It's pretty bad.

Mhm.