You don’t have to tell me. I was drugged for a while because people thought my empathy was a sickness in me.
Her brows shot up in surprise, ”Oh my, that’s terrible!”
*shrugs* Well, by their lights, they were trying to do a good thing. This was while I was still trying to get a handle on shielding, you understand, and there are human illnesses that look much the same as what I was displaying. So it could have been worse, really. But … to me, it was like being wrapped in cotton. I felt — suffocated.
“I see…well in any case I am glad things are in a better situation now.”
So what about you? There a reason you’re pokin’ around in our poor mortal world now?