She's not hurting. You're not hurting her. I calmed her down and she's now asleep and we need to figure out what to do but you're not hurting her, she's okay, she can stay that way for as long as needed if it's the only way you can think -

Deep breaths. Okay.

Pretty much as soon as she got into the crisper part of my weird sense I was, um, in love with her, very suddenly. Since she wasn't the first person I encountered it must be filtering by something but I have no idea what, it could be anything, some artifacts have divinatory contingencies but it could be anything. I, I don't need anything in particular from her not if it's going to hurt her, I can't hurt her, I'm not going to touch her unless she needs a power -

...can you push me the power and then remove it, or will I very much object to having it removed once I've got it -

...I think I'd object to having it removed if it didn't freak her out. But that could just be me freaking out about mind altering magic even when all it's doing is reversing previous mind altering magic, I don't know if the effect self-protects outright. And since it does freak her out I'd get rid of it in a heartbeat if I could. I can try on you if you want but I don't know what it filters for, I don't know if it'll stick you on anybody.

...could try it without anyone around, or without any men around if we assume it's at least trying a tiny bit on the compatibility front - though in a way it'd be more useful if it did temporarily work so I could send her, show her it's not the same -

I have no idea how hard it's trying on the compatibility front, I was bisexual to begin with.

She was gay before - stuff happened, she had a secret girlfriend who died a century ago - anyway, let's try it and then remove it regardless of what I say about it, unless you expect I'll actually fight you if you try.

I - don't know how likely you are to do that?

I am pretty sure I wouldn't but you're the one with the heavy-duty mind-affecting magic. 

Well, I guess if you don't have a sword then attacking me would involve touching me and I can remove it anyway? And I'll heal?

...okay. I will aspire to not make that necessary.

Okay. If you want to try it you can try it.

What I want is to figure out whether we should push it to her, but yeah.

How would that help.

Enemy couldn't do it. Ergo, she's out.

But didn't she want it not to be real -

Yes, but it is real, and she doesn't prefer to believe it's fake given that it's real.

...okay.

It might be a terrible idea but the current situation is also kind of terrible and it might be less terrible than that, I'm not sure. You could take it off again if you don't want her to be - madly in love with you, or whatever -

Her hand didn't un-grow after I took off the healing power, if she winds up in love with me - or someone else, I have no idea how it filters! - then that might stick whether she keeps the effect or not.

Okay. Well, when she wakes up I will tell her what I know and she can figure out what she wants. It might take her a while but she'll get there.

Okay.

Do you actually like anything about her or is it just 'this person is the magically-enforced center of my universe'.

It's kind of hard to tell when my first impression was 'oh look the magically enforced center of my universe is stabbing people'!

Okay, fair. 

Not that I expect it to come up but could she, like, convince you to stab people for her, or is it not that kind of -