"Enh, I don't really care at this point. It's not like it's a harmful habit like picking at scabs or chewing your fingernails."

"Sure. I'm glad I could help."

"I like your powers a lot. I can't tell you how many times it would have been convenient for Marie and I to be mutually telepathic. Do you need me to sign anything to get this counted as practice hours or something?"

"I don't actually have the form on me, but Professor Winters will take my word for it as long as the word is telepathed at her in such a way that she could tell if I was making it up."

"Alright. ...How long did that take, anyway?"

"Hour and forty-five minutes."

"Huh. It didn't feel like it took a long time...but then dreams usually don't, when you wake up."

"Yep."

"Thank you. This is going to make my life so much easier."

"You're welcome."

"Happily, I don't have anything like that to get rid of."

"Happily. ...Oh, I should mention, the phobia might not stay as gone as it is right now forever. Normally you'd have done all that over a few sessions. It shouldn't come back very much, and if nothing else terrible involving scissors happens to you it will never be as bad as it was again. It might pop up a little bit and then subside."

"Good to know. I won't assume the worst if I pick up a pair of hedgeclippers and feel inexplicably nervous, then."

"That's the spirit."

"Immediately going out and buying a bunch of scoop-necked tops when I get home would probably be an overreaction, though."

"You could maybe get one, but not a bunch. And you should be long term stable in a year or so."

"Yyyyeah. I can't help you with that from here."

Sigh. "I have powers this time, so I'm not seriously worried he'll be able to do anything really nasty this time. But he's still--a threat."

"Yeah."

"Oh well. Worst comes to absolute worst I start over again."

"Assuming it keeps happening, yeah, you got a good deal there."

"Mhm. Being a baby's unfun enough to give me plenty of incentive to keep from getting killed, and aside from that I see no point in worrying that I might just not wake up someday."

"Nice arrangement. I just have to try to make enough money that I can get rezzed if I die of anything other than old age."

"...Oh, nice, we don't have any kind of resurrection at all, unless you count the reincarnation."