…Over. As quickly as he had come into her thoughts, he vanished from them, and the profound understanding went with him. As if she had forgotten most of what she"d learned in those few seconds.
Blushing hard, the young man squeezed his eyes shut. He turned his head so that she could only see him in profile. “It"s true,” he said softly. “You"ve been influenced by a telepath. Many times.”
“How can you tell?”
“It"s not something that is easily expressed in words,” he said. “Human emotions are smooth; they blend together naturally. When someone tweaks them, influences them against their natural inclination, they become jagged. The stronger the tweak, the more noticeable the change.
“What they did to you was subtle: just a few nudges here and there, but…” Raynar turned, gesturing with his h
