Chapter 85
“I take it you couldn’t hear anything either,” she mumbled. “If you weren’t so obviously alive, I would assume I was probing a dead mind.” Well, there was a cheerful thought. She scraped together the courage to ask her next question. “Does that mean there’s something wrong with me?” He frowned, like his mind had wandered somewhere else again. “I have no doubt you are exactly the way you were intended to be.” She’d heard people use that expression before, and it was usually reassuring. But the way he said it made the hairs on her arms stick up. Especially when she noticed the way his hands had started shaking. “Can you tell me what I’m thinking right now?” he asked quietly. She stretched out her consciousness, feeling for his thoughts. “You’re wondering how to train me if you can’t p
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