:That's going to take a perfunctory lecture on psychic theory, I hope you realize,: she says dryly, not actually against the idea. :Psychic theory that might not even apply otherwise. Get comfortable.:
She takes a moment to collect her thoughts. These days in Velgarth, Mind-Gifts are barely known on the continent where she's generally based, outside of Valdemar and Seejay and the Kaled'a'in offshoots, and she doesn't know if there's been some new and more exciting theory in the past... however long.
:People with relevant Mind-Gifts, what you'd call psychic powers, have the ability to send and receive information along a particular channel. They can connect these to talk to each other across some distance. ...It's a revelation for people who don't have the kind of infrastructure you're used to, don't mock.: Miguel's too used to information transfer being instant and effortless even across great distances to really understand what a boon it is.
:Most people aren't Mind-Gifted. You might or might not have some latent tendency in there, I haven't dug around to make sure. Regardless, I can't use that channel to talk to you in that way, so there has to be more effort involved. If you'll recall, you could hear me when you were touching the sword I'm bound to because there was a physical connection, but you could interrupt it by letting go.: And being rude in the extreme, she thinks. :After that I was familiar enough to speak to you with some more distance. Essentially, I use my Gift to present your body with partial sensory information and your imagination fills it in. You're hallucinating my voice right now.:
"It's more of an effort, but I can seem to be heard with your ears." This starts as if a low, cracked, slightly 'off' voice with her cadence is speaking into an earpiece and ends as if she's in the room, with all the subtle effects of sound bouncing from the hard bare surfaces and a much more natural 'sound'. :I just don't care to. If you want to go into the 'hows' past here it's going to have to get a lot more technical and speculative on my part.:
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She takes a moment to collect her thoughts. These days in Velgarth, Mind-Gifts are barely known on the continent where she's generally based, outside of Valdemar and Seejay and the Kaled'a'in offshoots, and she doesn't know if there's been some new and more exciting theory in the past... however long.
:People with relevant Mind-Gifts, what you'd call psychic powers, have the ability to send and receive information along a particular channel. They can connect these to talk to each other across some distance. ...It's a revelation for people who don't have the kind of infrastructure you're used to, don't mock.: Miguel's too used to information transfer being instant and effortless even across great distances to really understand what a boon it is.
:Most people aren't Mind-Gifted. You might or might not have some latent tendency in there, I haven't dug around to make sure. Regardless, I can't use that channel to talk to you in that way, so there has to be more effort involved. If you'll recall, you could hear me when you were touching the sword I'm bound to because there was a physical connection, but you could interrupt it by letting go.: And being rude in the extreme, she thinks. :After that I was familiar enough to speak to you with some more distance. Essentially, I use my Gift to present your body with partial sensory information and your imagination fills it in. You're hallucinating my voice right now.:
"It's more of an effort, but I can seem to be heard with your ears." This starts as if a low, cracked, slightly 'off' voice with her cadence is speaking into an earpiece and ends as if she's in the room, with all the subtle effects of sound bouncing from the hard bare surfaces and a much more natural 'sound'. :I just don't care to. If you want to go into the 'hows' past here it's going to have to get a lot more technical and speculative on my part.: