"I can let people get really close to fires without getting too hot. I could probably let someone who wasn't even me be in a fire and not burn but no one's tried it. I don't have a sauna."
Oh, well. What's her world's technology like, do they have oxygen tanks...? (Brief concept of what an oxygen tank is) They could maybe bundle one of her brothers up so much they normally couldn't breathe but have one of those under the fabric? Unless they don't have them.
"We don't have those. ...And they don't sound very huggy."
Eh, it was a thought. Oh well. As Kiri gets older she will probably meet people who don't mind having their minds read who will hug her. Meanwhile, Emily hugs.
Emily hugs are nice. "I'm not sure how many of those people there are."
Well, maybe she could advertise? It's not like someone who was responding to "mindreading subjects wanted for hugging" could plausibly take advantage of her, what with the mindreading.
...Of course, Edie can make sure to only look at some things and not others, so it's not quite the same thing, is it.
Eventually Emily's mind will wander back to the question she wanted to ask Dr. McCoy for her science class. She's having trouble working something out, and she's sure that she's getting something wrong and that the problem will make sense once she has whatever-it-is corrected.