"I hope so, anyway!" She looks over at the table of professional psychics. "Hey, could you..."

Ziobe snorts. "Dhama, 'boros, I think waiting for them to come to us is just not going to happen. Look at them, they're clearly not the normal laypeople that wander in here complaining of ghosts haunting their thoughts. Come on, this is silly." And up she gets, hooking a finger towards her two companions.

They follow.

Dhama, upon reaching them, finally blurts out the question that has been burning in their mind: "What is that place in your head?"

She blinks, then understands. "Oh! I... don't know. It's really malleable and confusing, though? I guess it could be described as a labyrinth?"

"A labyrinth!" they—now that they're close enough she can make out their features, a pudgy person with a comical mustache and eyes deep enough to swallow continents—exclaim. "I have seen many constructs, palaces and mausoleums and safeboxes and banks and castles and cities, but a labyrinth... That's novel. It speaks of cunning and guile."

"Well thank you! I didn't think of it or make it!" says Vetmera, brightly. "I'm about a day old and all of my neat toys are inherited, I figured out my name this morning. Vetmera, hi."

"I am Dhama. Dhama of the Bloom. These are my companions, Ziobe," friendly girl, "Theboros," grumpy old dude who hasn't quite finished walking towards them, "Leto," girl by the bar, "and Feriok," dude tending the bar. "We own the Fifth Eye, jointly."

They turn to peer at Vetmera again. "Once you're done with your... little problem, here... do you mind if I take a quick look into your labyrinth?"

And since apparently Aleks isn't going to introduce himself and Tahir is distracted, "This is Aleks, and this is Tahir," she says, motioning to them both in turn. "And yeah, sure, I actually originally came here to try and figure out my psychic nonsense, so someone else looking at it would actually be really appreciated. Don't break anything, please."

Tahir turns his nigh-omnipresent grin to the new arrivals and raises a hand in greeting.

Aleks is scowling, though. She's gonna let a stranger just go rummaging inside her mind?

She pats Aleks's hand.

"It's okay," she soothes. "Really. If he were hostile, he could admittedly get in an excellent opener in that would absolutely scramble me, which would suck! But that would also do absolutely nothing about you being extremely upset about my treatment. The whole thing would devolve into a huge fight, which would be pointless and stupid, and opening one with knocking me out would be kind of dumb. I'm kind of the most harmless one here. And... there is something valuable to be gained, in openness and honesty and cooperation."

Grumble grumble.

"It doesn't need to be now!" Dhama assures her. "Like Fiorek said, we're not going anywhere."

Giggle.

“Then it can wait for a bit. What were we talking about? Sitting on Tahir’s nano demons slightly less so we can negotiate with them?”

“Can do.” She stretches, cracks her neck, and wiggles her fingers in anticipation. “I’m going to let up slowly, because I’m not going to be able to blindly guess the right level of suppression. You two pay attention and call it if you start to lose control,” she points at Tahir, “and if they’re still too soft to hear,” and then she points at Vetmera.

Then, after a nod from Tahir, she begins.

“Starting… now!”

Couple of seconds later:

THAT WAS AWFUL who do we need to kill WHAT HAPPENED WHILE WE WERE OUT

"Hello, you two. I think this is about enough," he tells Ziobe.

"I agree! Tahir can you hear them too, or do I need to play interpreter?"

Ziobe agreeably leaves the suppression there.

"I can hear them."

HE CAN HEAR US more importantly he can talk

"Yes, I can talk."

STOP HIM kill him BREAK HIM we can't do anything why can't we do anything

"Will you guys chill?"

...okay Aleks is kind of curious about what's happening there.

Vetmera giggles.

"They're freaking out and immediately plotting murder. Guys. Guys calm down, Tahir wants to keep you."

WAIT WHAT why would he do that WHAT IS GOING ON he does know we're killing him right

"We want to figure out a fix for that."

why would we want to fix that killing is part of the point THEN WE JUMP SHIP AND FIND A NEW HOST AND HAVE NEW ADVENTURES

"Oh yeah? Hey, question, how long did you guys spend inside that box."

SO LONG decades... maybe centuries. maybe longer. SO SMALL SO CRAMPED SO DARK there was nothing in there SO BORING NOTHING TO DO NOTHING TO SEE no one was suffering but us

"Uh huh. Yeah I thought so. So what's your plan for when you consume me?"

JUMP SHIP find a new host NEW PERSON NEW ADVENTURES watch you suffer and die find someone else to suffer and die

"Yeah? How'd that work out for you guys last time? Actually, scratch that. Do you think I'll let you guys do that?"

you have no power OUR PUPPET FOR HEROICS we will make you do it OUR TAHIR

(This is fascinating even if Dhama can't really keep track of everything that's happening there.)