I have and we do, especially since I gave her an eidetic memory.

Ooooh. ...what sort of things can your alien psychic powers do?

Precognition, lucid dreaming, I'm working on expanded attentional capacity now, other people do stuff like remote viewing or postcognition or illusions.

Can all of that be learned, or is it an alien thing?

I have to learn it, but the potential to even do that is an alien thing, we think - haven't figured out for sure if Elves can ever get it.

I see. 

Can you tell my daughter I love her?

Yeah.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Isabella bounces this to Maitimë.

Well. Huh. I guess if I ever get myself killed that changes the calculus a little. Do you need to know a specific orc by name or anything to try to reach them?

I do have to be able to pick them out individually; name per se not necessarily. Should I have that conversation for real with your grandfather -?

I - maybe? He didn't sound desperate to reach the world, but it would mean a lot to my mother -

I mean, I can pass on that he would've said to tell her he loves her without actually bugging him...

Now that she knows it's possible my mother will probably want to talk with him - not all the time but more frequently than 'never' -

I don't mind being a relay now and then.

Then maybe go ahead and have the conversation for real so he has some context.

So Isabella does that.

The conversation goes exactly as predicted.

Of course it does.

Advice on how to tell your mother?

Uh. Probably send her an email, so she can process it alone? She's - still kind of messed up over it, honestly -

Okay. Isabella's got a phone on her; she pulls it out and writes I tried speaking to your father with psionic telepathy to see if I could reach dead people and it worked. He said to tell you he loves you. Turns it to Maitimë for approval.

Looks good.

Send.

And a short time later: can you tell him I love him? And what I'm working on, I don't know how much detail he'll want -

Do you want to set up an occasion for me to relay directly or should I just tell him that now?