"No offense, but the inferential distance is both hilarious and adorable."

"It's really difficult!" says Itaruko. "Like, imagine trying to explain to someone how to move their arm. Like, you have a freaking arm, you just sort of want to move it and it's literally right there so you– move it? What do you mean you don't know how to use your arm. It's intuitive. Most people know how to use their arms by like, straight away – doesn't quite apply here but literally everyone knows how by age nine unless they have some sort of problem, imagine it's more like a language, how do you make sounds oh well you just do!"

"Telepathy," repeats Martin. "It would be useful here."

"Maybe someone in the bar has it?"

"If someone's appeared since we last looked?" he shrugs. "Could go look, yeah."

The bar has since acquired new patrons. There is a bear and a young girl sleeping by the fireplace. There is this sleeping gentleman that looks perfectly ordinary, he's emitting soft music instead of snores. There is another sleeping girl using a silvery one-piece suit that looks retro-futuristic.

There is this not-actually-seven-feet-tall-but-close guy in his boxers and he is the only one awake.

Itaruko will go that way, then! "Hey."

Hello. He says telepathically. Well isn't that convenient?

… Can you do feelings like movements too or just words, because it would be extremely convenient timing if you can do feelings.

Oh. Sure, like this? And he sends how telepathy feels like from his end.

Oh. Well. Yep. That probably works. He waves Martin over.

Yep.

Martin comes over!

And the tall man that has yet to introduce himself would be happy to work as telepathic relay.

So Itaruko transmits!

Martin… expresses his confusion! "That really does not fit with how I'm able to grab and twist spaces in my head. That is to say not at all."

Observe: lack of grabbiness and twistiness of spaces in Martin's head.

"… Huh."

And if there's lumen that he's trying to grab and twist and poke at instead?

Then– Martin is confused because it feels like it might be slightly different but he's obviously not actually doing anything and the twisting is still failing to be a feasible action!

… Itaruko sends him what he 'sees' and tries getting him to poke it in a different way.

Martin tries doing that!

… It still fails to be a feasible action!

"I don't think this is gonna work."

"It's weird, though."

Shrug.

Franklyn is sorry he couldn't offer more help.

What he did do was helpful, though, so thanks for that!

Martin and Itaruko go back to the triplets.

And they are waiting for him and his results.

"Didn't get much better results!" says Itaruko. "There might've been something but if there was it didn't have external effects and this is overall apparently very weird."