"I was expecting it to be that way forever. I don't mind the time."

And they can schedule another appointment and Boots goes home. (Maybe Rúmil will want to braid her hair for her as long as she's psionically exhausted.)

He would be delighted to do that! The tips of his ears will be red all day.

Awwwwww.

"You doing okay? I know sessions are usually shorter than that for reasons, and there are four of them in the same situation..."

"I'm fine. I worked longer days than this when I was formally practicing, the arts part was just spread out more so I could still float stuff at the end of the day."

"Alright." Hug. Kiss. "The multiverse is absurdly lucky to have you."

Kiss! She could get used to this kissing thing. "Thank you. My alts think it's funny that I went into therapy - probably just 'cause we're one of the most therapy-resistant sorts of people ever - but it seems to have been really fortuitous."

"Even people who are generally pretty good at self-therapizing would find Angband a lot to cope with, I think."

"Yeah." Pause. "I fuck with the therapizing-people-with-whom-there-exists-personal-relationship thing kind of a lot but not to the point where - uh, if you ever wanted, I could recommend -"

"I think the Enemy got worse. He wanted us for labor, and hostages, and subtle-fucking-around-so-we'd-be-trouble-when-we-went-back, not -"

Nod. Snuggle.

Snuggles are nice. 

She finishes with the association pinching in the predicted amount of time.

Findekáno's with him that week. "What's next, do you think?"

"Have the existing adjustments clarified any priorities or highlighted any issues for you?"

"I'm a little worried that actually feeling things will interfere with my fairly acute sense of what the person I'm pretending to be would be feeling and therefore how to respond."

"What problems would that cause?"

"People'd think I was behaving erratically and get worried? I might damage some relationships?"

"I can do a reversible intervention - it may knock loose on its own, or I can undo it myself - and you could see how extreme the effects were, get a sense of how long it might take to get accustomed to feeling things normally again, determine if you'd like to take some time off or if you'd feel up to handling your regular schedule."

"Good idea, let's do that. - does that mean double the work for you -"

"In a sense, but it won't take all day to place and it'll be very quick to remove if it doesn't undo itself."

"All right. Thank you."

"You're welcome. Do you want me to do this now?"

"Anything you think should come first?"