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[rebelarrow]

I'll call you back later.

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[helpdesk_hero]

You seem quite expressive for three years. And that coming from a psychiatrist.

[rebelarrow]

Our emotions weren't excised, merely buried. Some things came more naturally than others.

And I have no doubt living among Changelings helped. They're as emotional as Psy are emotionless.

You also seem a little young to be a psychiatrist.

[helpdesk_hero]

I told you about my powers, right? Psychomimetic? I retained a portion of what I had absorbed back home. I'm just rolling in doctorates and medical degrees and so many other things.

I'm a fucking blackbelt in telepathic warfare, not that I ever had the sort of telepathy to allow me to make use of that.

[rebelarrow]

I know more than a few telepaths that would metaphorically pick your brain for that information.

Mostly to see if they already knew it.

[helpdesk_hero]

I don't want to create an arms race, so I'd rather not have my brain picked. Seriously.

But I'd let you look.

[rebelarrow]

Pretty trusting of a man you just met.

And the Psy I have in mind are only interested in two things--protecting the Empaths, and fostering the peace accord between the three races.

[helpdesk_hero]

You're a Psy, as you termed it. You could take what you wanted.

Empaths. You know Empathic people? That's a heavy weight they have.

[rebelarrow]

And a Changeling could snap my neck if they got close enough, were they so inclined.

Just because someone is capable of doing something does not mean they will.

Honorable Psy have a strict code of ethics when it comes to entering someone's mind.

Yes. [To both the question and the statement.] Under Silence, the Council attempted to suppress designation E, but over the past several years they've been re-emerging. DarkRiver and SnowDancer help protect the main Empath training ground.

[helpdesk_hero]

Honorable Telepaths do too. Except I suppose my power wasn't exactly honorable.

Empaths need protected more than any other kind of telepaths.

[rebelarrow]

From what you told me, you didn't make a conscious decision to utilize your powers. There's the difference.

They do, which is why the most dangerous men and women in the Net have sworn their loyalty to the E's. The Arrows have already proven they'll stop at nothing to keep them safe.

Then again, as a cardinal E has recently shown, they're also capable of protecting themselves--she projected her pursuers' fears onto them. Left them wrecks curled up in the fetal position.

[Sascha Duncan had already had his respect, but that just elevated it.]

[helpdesk_hero]

See, now that I can respect. Using one's powers to protect themselves or others? Good. And frankly, people should feel the terror they inflict on others at times.

[rebelarrow]

I couldn't agree more.

Neither can either pack, if pack grapevine is to be believed.

[helpdesk_hero]

Of course, there are those who would see it as an attack and just lash out even more over it.

[rebelarrow]

The mercenaries, unprovoked, attacked the mate of the DarkRiver alpha and their daughter, who was a few days shy of a year old, in a DarkRiver city.

There's a distinct lack of pity all around.

[helpdesk_hero]

What is it about the development of intelligence that makes us hate so much? Is it just an inherent state of our minds?

[rebelarrow]

From what we can tell, with this group in particular... their motivations appear to be motivated by greed.

Keeping the races separate is better business for them. Pit two groups that have no communication against each other and pick up their pieces.

[helpdesk_hero]

I hate those sorts of people. Unity is hard enough without racism.

[rebelarrow]

The Consortium, the farther we dig, seems to only be using existing racial tensions for their own benefit.

In actuality, they have no issues working across racial boundaries if it means maintaining their profits.

[helpdesk_hero]

Which is damn frustrating. At least you're pushing toward a new balance, right?

[rebelarrow]

Yes. Thankfully for us, we'd already been building the foundations of unity across the three races. The packs had finally begun communicating with each other more--we had contacts that we could reach out to before someone slighted did something rash.

They waited too long to strike.

[helpdesk_hero]

Good. I am very glad for it. Thank you for speaking to me on this.

[rebelarrow]

You're welcome...

Though I fail to see what all of that had to do with spontaneous shifting.

[helpdesk_hero]

[Oh. Right. That, uh, had been the purpose. He’d gotten lost.]

I was asking from an inter species perspective. The concern that a human or psy might find their Changeling partner, well, changing while growing intimate. But I realize that is an awkward question.

[rebelarrow]

I see.

In my case, Brenna has to worry about me and my abilities more than vice versa, though occasionally she unconsciously semi-shifts her hands into claws.

[Judd fails to see the problem there.]

[helpdesk_hero]

[See, that's exactly what David was wondering about.]

Is there something she does to not do it more often?