[There's a longer-than-usual pause between that message and his next one.
She's already admitted that she meant the part about not letting people hurt. She didn't dispute 'telepathy.'
It's a problem he keeps running into here. He keeps trying to treat her the same as he would anyone else, when she's already proven she can see past all that. Not only see past it, she has the ability to side-step all of it onto the other side.
He's let her, once before. Been trying to protect himself here because this isn't Pakistan -- someplace isolated, apart from everything and everyone else they know.
Perhaps there's a compromise to be made.]
How much truth was there to the rest of it?
[Lobbing the ball back to her. Leaving the door open to step through or not, as she chooses.]
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She's already admitted that she meant the part about not letting people hurt. She didn't dispute 'telepathy.'
It's a problem he keeps running into here. He keeps trying to treat her the same as he would anyone else, when she's already proven she can see past all that. Not only see past it, she has the ability to side-step all of it onto the other side.
He's let her, once before. Been trying to protect himself here because this isn't Pakistan -- someplace isolated, apart from everything and everyone else they know.
Perhaps there's a compromise to be made.]
How much truth was there to the rest of it?
[Lobbing the ball back to her. Leaving the door open to step through or not, as she chooses.]