"It's...the way my sister would want and expect telepathy to work, it would be dramatically incomplete if there were things in a person's mind that categorically couldn't be transmitted."

"Interesting." He looks at Edie. "You know, I never did ask, but—why exactly do you have opinions about this sort of thing?"

"About telepathy?"

"Yeah."

"...I don't like the idea of being locked in my own brain."

Slow blink. "Elaborate?"

"...In the normal course of things, there are things that cannot be communicated between two people, no matter how close they are, and I don't like that."

"Oh. I suppose that makes sense, yeah."

"Heh. Do you want me to just show you?"

"Yeah."

She shows him.

It's a drive, with her, a need like the sex drive could be called a need, something it doesn't hurt her to neglect but that she's better off if she doesn't, and it nags at her--she wants to know what people are thinking, to understand them on a basic level. And she has ethics, much as she longs to she isn't going to just start reading people's minds willy-nilly, but...

"—but if people show you it's way, way better, you understand them better—

"...I wouldn't actually be against you reading my mind, now."

She beams at him and kisses him.

Kiss!

"I mean, in full generality. I don't really—think private thoughts? I have a general objection to people reading my mind because I don't know what they'll want to do with that information or what else they might do while they're there but I trust you."

She beams at him some more

Grin.

"...Thank you. This is--" she can't think of good words, so she pushes it at him: Thus far in her life, her twin is literally the only person who who has given her open-ended permission to read their mind whenever.

Well and now she has two people!

She does and it's the best thing. She hugs him.

So much hug!

I love you.

!!!!!!

I love you too!!!!

Kiss!

All of the kiss.

Do you want to see?

Yes!