Oh, no. Nothing like that. [Said with a tiny, slightly embarrassed smile and a shake of his head.] It's more of an... empathetic thing where we feel or sense each other's emotions. Something more likely to happen within proximity of one another, though the more extreme emotions apparently carry over distances, such as from Heropa to Maurtia Falls. Hence my poor condition during the last session.

[A brief pause; he wears a thoughtful expression.] Anyway, so I guess what I mean by ridiculous is that having similarly intense, negative feelings can really send us for a wild ride. Certainly took us long enough to get through the first stages of that...