Snuggle! "What'll you do next?"

"Precog. I don't think I could count on having telepathy generalized before you turn eighteen anyway."

"Yeah, I didn't think so. But I thought you'd do other things before precog? I dunno if there's anything more you can do that'd help bootstrap after you have eidetic but I suppose you'd aim for that instead if there was."

"There's some things, but mostly things I can sort of aim at just over the course of thinking in general. Like, I'm stopping formally concentrating on eidetic memory once I have it going forward; but I can still try a little bit harder to force memories to the surface when I remember earlier events, and eventually it might stretch to cover that. I can try to think faster and more clearly, whenever I'm thinking about things. I don't want to fall into the trap of self-optimizing so hard that I can't do anything anyone else can verify in a decade."

"Yeah, that's a good idea, I suppose. Still jealous that there isn't anything like that for mages. Can psions push eidetic memory onto other people?"

"Probably, but it's not a staple of the discipline..."

"Huh. I wonder why not."

"Because having enough eclipsed for collaboration to be viable is kinda new?"

"...that's a terribly good point, yes. Man, we're gonna see an explosion in magical advances over the next few years, aren't we."

"I'm excited."

"You and I, we're gonna spearhead that explosion. They're gonna actually make movies about us."

"Oh no, what if they write us badly?"

"We'll still be alive by then because immortal, we can make sure they won't."

"I don't think public figures have that kind of control over their portrayals."

"We'll also be queen-and-consort of the world," he points out.

"I wasn't planning to use my power to control the press."

"Awww, why do you have to be reasonable and benevolent?"

"It's my job."

"It's true, it is your job."

"And I'm very responsible." Pet, pet, pet.

"Yup. I would know it. You'll be the best queen."

"Mm-hm."

"On related news, I think I can probably heal my own broken bones now. And I might be able to heal someone else's split lip or papercut."

"Ooh. You can tell the administrators and get permission to try it next time somebody has a papercut."

"Could distribute pamphlets. 'Got a papercut? Come test the mighty healing powers of Sadde for science!'"