Sadde knocks on Isabella's door at 7PM sharp.
"Well, some people enjoy self-composed nightmares in the way one might enjoy roller coasters, but not me."
"Tell me about it. I've been focusing on more general shapeshifting than just gender swapping, and seeing how I can generalize that to fuller biokinesis."
"De-aging, unless that counts as healing, and other than that, it sounds like it's a pretty small step from being able to heal everything, but I'm not actually sure."
"Yeah, I suppose. I should actually look into what other people have said about the difference between general healing and general biokinesis."
"I mean, no, but not nothing. If most people say 'biokinesis is impossible' then I won't try, if they say 'it's pretty much healing with a little trick' then I will."
"Fair enough. I spent a while tearing my hair out reading other people's description of mental conversations. They were no two alike and none of them resembled the thing I do to talk to Alex."
"Any time I don't specifically want to hedge him out there's a passive connection so he can initiate conversations too. Sort of like a - psionic tin-cans-and-string setup. I can do that because I know 'where to expect him to be', mentally, because I know him so well - other people seem just as often to pick up fully general conversational telepathy, I can imagine getting there but not with this particular set of tin cans and string."