"Of course, just because something might be magic doesn't mean you stop trying to understand it. It's just people say things to make the spectre of magic go away that don't really explain anything."

"Well the first step to trying to understand is to look at those brain scans."

"Sure."

Peer.

Linda peers too.

If there is an implant it must be a very subtle one. There's nothing in either of their brains that looks any different from the surrounding tissue. "Well either there's no implant, it's brilliantly disguised, it's very tiny or the scan is filtering it out."

"Unless you build your own MRI machine from scratch you can't test that last one. Maybe there's a way to do a higher-resolution scan, that would probably let you eliminate the brilliant disguise or really tiny hypothesis."

"Could try that yeah."

"I'll look in the encyclopedia for any mentions of higher-resolution scans for telepathy." She busies herself doing that.

Anna and Linda browse the book selection in the library.

"So I was looking for anything I could find that might be related, there are higher resolution scans we can run. There are vague references to treating some mental illnesses with telepathy though they also referenced the color red it was confusing."

"Treating mental illnesses. Huh. Interesting."

"Yeah, I'm not sure how comfortable I am with the idea, but it makes a certain degree of sense. Therapy turned up to 11."

"That sounds a lot more intimate than I would want therapy to be."

 "Also messing with people's minds directly seems potentially super abusable."

"That's also worrying."

"Yeah. No kidding."

Emily walks over and hugs Claire. "It's not worth worrying about for the moment. We'll have time to figure it out."

"Nothing we can do about it right now anyway."

"We should practice the telepathy though. Practice makes everything safer."

"Maybe a little later, I don't feel like it right now."

"I think it's kind of cool, but it's fair if it makes you uncomfortable."

"I think I'll probably enjoy it once I'm used to it. It's just being told about the possibility of people messing with my head so close to finding out."

"Yeah."

"I'm going to go take a high-resolution scan of my brain. I don't expect it to be exciting but you can come if you want."

"I don't think we really need to watch that."