Psii was momentarily surprised at how easy it seemed for Meenah to open her mind. Was so hard for him with anyone but HL, with all attendant fears, he felt almost jealous that she was so confident.
His mind was still more like computer than the sprawl of impressions, emotions, and thoughts normal troll's would have been. But there were places where orderly structure broke down. Memories of being ship were huge, tangled, dark mess, knotted up with emotions concerning her. Thoughts and feelings about Meenah, very close to Empress in mental landscape, weren't any tidier, clot of dislike with shame and embarrassment running all through it, idea that things could be better if he'd tried harder, except... couldn't.
Might have expected her feelings about him to be similar, though without any sense she'd done anything wrong, but they were more complicated. Hadn't expected conflict could see in her feelings about his other self, either. Thought came to him in a flash: She doesn't like because make her feel unsure.
Psii could feel when Meenah's mind turned outward, almost as well as when HL did it. Strange. How could this work so well when they couldn't even have a civil conversation?
But was also easy to let energy snap out with gesture she made, crack of red that lit up that side of goggles and sent attacker stumbling, then crashing to sidewalk, knocked out. Thrill Psii got from their success was enough to drown out worries and doubts for now.
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His mind was still more like computer than the sprawl of impressions, emotions, and thoughts normal troll's would have been. But there were places where orderly structure broke down. Memories of being ship were huge, tangled, dark mess, knotted up with emotions concerning her. Thoughts and feelings about Meenah, very close to Empress in mental landscape, weren't any tidier, clot of dislike with shame and embarrassment running all through it, idea that things could be better if he'd tried harder, except... couldn't.
Might have expected her feelings about him to be similar, though without any sense she'd done anything wrong, but they were more complicated. Hadn't expected conflict could see in her feelings about his other self, either. Thought came to him in a flash: She doesn't like because make her feel unsure.
Psii could feel when Meenah's mind turned outward, almost as well as when HL did it. Strange. How could this work so well when they couldn't even have a civil conversation?
But was also easy to let energy snap out with gesture she made, crack of red that lit up that side of goggles and sent attacker stumbling, then crashing to sidewalk, knocked out. Thrill Psii got from their success was enough to drown out worries and doubts for now.