"My best guess is that when we came here something teleported a chip into our brains. Failing that, I really have no idea."

"I don't like the sound of that."

"Yeah. I don't really like the sound of that either."

"The alternative is pretty much 'throw up our hands and call it magic', but yeah."

"Why not call it magic? Not everything has an explanation that can be found."

"Being really creative and having leaps of insight doesn't mean you have magic Emily."

"The things I figure out don't always make sense Claire. People can call me an idiot savant or a genius all they want but it doesn't mean there's a real explanation in those words."

"I'd rather at least try to find a better explanation first."

"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."