"You know," says Aurora, "there are ways to do mindreading that aren't quite as, I dunno, free-roaming, as the standard or what Rose does. Brilliance didn't want to be quite an open book so it's like Sue-linking on his end. If that's what got you and Juliet delayed, if you don't want her just looking at arbitrary things."
Aurora laughs. "It's... hmm. Good question. It sort of pushes a lot of buttons all at once. Satisfies curiosity in more depth than would be naively expected possible, makes it clear we're in agreement with someone whose opinion we value about how great we are, intense expression of trust with a vulnerability we can't bear to throw around ourselves so it's especially touching to get - well, not in my case, there's no problem with just pushing chosen thoughts, if I ever want to set that up, but I bet the standards get an extra rush for that. And - we're fairly good at intellectually believing things just on the basis of reasoning them out or having indirect, but there's an emotional difference between 'someone told me this thing existed' and 'I can see it in motion'. Like the difference between getting a postcard that says 'wish you were here' versus an actual hug."
"I'll take that as a 'no' instead of a 'please conjure a table' till further notice. You should probably be aware that the first thing Juliet is going to want to go looking for is how to take care of you, she still seems kind of - I lack adjectives, but that is what I expect her to want to read, even before delicious telepathic expressions of love om nom nom."