This next person is a belul, the adorable fuzzy species, wearing an illusion of a spiked collar and accompanied by illusory miniature floating skulls. She says she'd like to know what fear feels like.

I can probably do that. Are you immune or just hard to scare?

"Immune, as far as I know."

Well, if it doesn't work, I won't charge you.

Fear! Just a little tick of it, she doesn't want to startle the lady into doing something she doesn't mean to.

"I don't think that worked. I don't think I have a ward up that should stop you..."

I wouldn't be able to talk to you if you did, most likely. Do you want me to see if I can figure out what's going on in that department, are all of your species immune to fear or is it just you...?

"Oh, everyone knows most beluli are anxious all the time."

How long have you not been anxious?

"I don't remember ever being different. Some beluli are just like this."

Do you want me to see if I can figure that out?

"Yeah!"

Presuming she wants this enough to pay for it, then -

Okay, that's interesting! It looks like you are in a certain useless technical sense extremely afraid all the time and the rest of your mind has decided to ignore that the same way that it ignores the way air feels in your nostrils and stuff like that. If I had a more typical example of a belul to look at I could probably switch things around to match but it'd take hours, I don't know if you want that. For a not-taking-hours option I think I can give you a little taste if I just start kinda farther in.

"Ooh, cool! I don't want to take hours - hey, does that mean I also don't know what not being afraid feels like, I want to know what that feels like too - anyway, yeah, let's try the thing that doesn't take hours."

I think you... don't know what being calm feels like. I'll do that first, it's a little easier, okay? On your nod.

And she collects all that screaming activated energy in her mental grasp and at a nod - hushes it.

Nod.

"...Oh. Wow. I don't suppose you could set something up so I could do that whenever I want to sleep."

I could probably make it permanent but I'm not sure of that and I can't make it so you can control it yourself. How long do you want me to hold it like this?

"I think I want it permanent but is there a way to leave it for a day or something first?"

Yes, I can press it into place a little and it'll work free in a few days or weeks but if you like it and want to keep it you can come back and I'll make it permanent. Did you want to also try actually-experienced fear first though?

"Sure!"

Bella lets go of the bundle, and then wiggles past all the baffles of ignoring it and - at your nod? -

Flick.

She rears up like she's threatening to do a murder. "I don't like that! I don't like that at all!"

Why are these guys so cute and fuzzy, it's awful, it's worse than yokai. It's not popular! It's sometimes useful but you're used to doing without.

"I know it's useful but I hate it."

Yeah. You want the temporarily-stable version of the thing I was doing before?

"Yes."