"Missed my twin brother. I got that down in virtuality, too, but at first it only worked on Alex, I expanded it over time and it's still not very highly developed."

"You wanted more than just email?"

"Yeah, he's not a great letter-writer and couldn't write during school hours even if he wanted to and there was just a lot of shared context that we fell behind on till I could be talking in his head constantly."

"My parents and I wrote a lot but I suppose they were pretty good letter writers and didn't have school."

"My parents wrote but I didn't miss them nearly as much to begin with."

"You and your brother are particularly close?"

"We're twins! I guess there are probably twins who aren't especially close. So yes."

"Does the telepathy work with anyone now?"

"I have to know who I'm aiming at but yeah." [Like this.]

"Oh that's really neat!" Can he reply? Hello?

[Hello, I barely caught that, you have to direct it a little more firmly and compose it all in fully verbal sentences.]

[Like this?]

[There you go, well done.]

[Thank you.]

[It's convenient enough that I expect to do all further development of its features through practice rather than just meditating on it.]

[That makes sense! It's really cool. What are you working on for it?]

[I'd like to add images, and more support for being able to tell if it's a bad time - I don't ring like a phone, so I just have to hope.]

[Would images be things you can see or imagine or something else?]

[I'm starting with things I can see, I think from there because I have eidetic memory it should branch pretty easily to things I can remember though it'll probably take longer for anyone to send me images like that. Then I can work on imagined images.]

[Is the idea you could send post cards to your brother or did you have other uses in mind?]

[He picks my clothes, the office is a little dressier than 't-shirts that came in a six pack' and 'jeans' and I have no fashion sense. A lot of the pictures I send him on my phone are of outfits.]

[Huh. I have no fashion sense but have to deal with just looking very boring as a result. Sometimes my parents buy me things and tell me they look good I guess.]

[Freelance probably has a slightly more relaxed dress code.]

[I spend a lot of time with PhD students who don't particularly have a dress code, except for lab coats sometimes, which I have yet to be offered even though it would neatly solve my style problem.]

[Is there some tradition that you must be offered your labcoat as a gift?]