"Not likely, not impossible."

"I don't think I want to start having stronger emotions before I've dealt with, uh, what their content would be."

"That's one of the 'in the right order' considerations, yes. My inclination would be to go after the imagination spirals first, and then you'd have a way to at least think quietly alone without your train of thought being constantly interrupted."

"That sounds useful, yeah."

"If you can remember one in sufficient detail I won't need a live example to go by; if you can't I will need to see it in progress."

"I have the eidetic memory, is that the right sort of remembering -"

"Sort of - it depends on how much you register the kind of detail I need to go on in the first place."

He sends a memory.

"I think I can use that, if they're usually all pretty much alike?"

"Variations on the same theme, at least."

"Yeah. So the way this works is - some thoughts come effortlessly and others you have to sort of reach for, depending on complexity and familiarity and interestingness and in some cases compulsiveness. I'm not going to make it impossible for you to think up things like that, but I can make it so it's not automatic and you'd have to try, by snapping any compulsive-looking pulls towards those ideas and attenuating the other factors a little bit. To the parts of your mind that decide what to think about next when you aren't directing them that sort of spiral will seem more complicated and out-of-habit and boring. Does that sound okay?"

"That sounds terrifying but - okay, yeah -"

"Do you want to watch what I'm doing as I go like Kib did?"

"Yes please."

"And you'd like him to see too?"

"Yes."

"Okay. And before I go in if there's anything you'd like me to be particularly sure I don't see incidentally, I can signpost it if you concentrate on it as a category for me."

"Enemy's seen it all."

"You still might not want me to see it."

"Are there things you would like me to signpost?"

"There's nothing I expect you to need to signpost for my comfort or ability to concentrate, but if there are personal events, confidential information that does not solely belong to you or that does but you'd sooner I didn't have, or any information that it might be inconvenient for me to go around pretending I have not learned until explicitly authorized otherwise, those would be candidates."

"How do I signpost?"

"You don't; I do. You just focus on whatever items or categories of items you want marked, and then I can mark them without looking at them."

"Okay. Couple different categories - if I signpost Angband stuff will that make it harder for you to work with it -"

"I can go through signposts, if I know to expect to need to; they're to prevent accidental brushes with the content."