A Meeting of the Minds

[hatngartersnake.livejournal.com]

[[OOC: Bendy-timed to before the Holiday plot.]]

Jeka arrived at the Jedi Temple that had been claimed as the headquarters of the Magic Department. A quick inspection of her surroundings indicated that Satori hadn't arrived yet, which didn't bother Jeka that much. She didn't mind waiting, especially when the being she was waiting for was likely to be along shortly anyway.

She passed the time by admiring the architecture. Most buildings on Orando were built into hillsides, and very rarely reached more than a few stories in height. One of the things she'd enjoyed since leaving her home planet was seeing all the things other sentients did with their building materials, and the most interesting examples had always been temples. She and Reep had discussed the reasons for that, and he'd promised to show her some of Durla's temples. They'd never gotten around to taking that trip.

She really, truly hoped that the Daligig were lying about their universes being destroyed. And she hoped that Reep and the others would wake up soon as well.

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[thirdeyesighted.livejournal.com]

Satori was a firm believer in being fashionably late. Not having anything else to do, she still stalled, lazily making her way to the Temple, arriving a few minutes after the promised time.

"It took me a while to find the temple," Satori lied as she floated in. After all, if what Nanoha had said was true, she couldn't read Satori's mind, right?

[hatngartersnake.livejournal.com]

She could tell it wasn't quite the truth, but Jeka decided to let it pass without commentary for the moment. Without commentary, but not without a mental note.

"You must be Satori," she said, sketching a small bow. "I suppose that it would be too much to hope that you're from Titan?"

She didn't really expect Satori to be from her own universe, but it was as good a place to start as any; as Titanian telepathy was the "brand" she was most familiar with.

[thirdeyesighted.livejournal.com]

"And you must be Jeka Wynzorr." Satori bowed herself, a hair deeper than Jeka. "And I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I'm from Earth. I lived in the Underground City, beneath Gensokyo." There was a brief pause, calculated to make it unlcear whether she read the lack of recognition of the name 'Gensokyo' from Jeka's mind or from her face. "A part of Japan, from a certain perspective."

[hatngartersnake.livejournal.com]

"I generally prefer 'Sensor' when I'm working, but yes."

Japan, Japan...it sounded vaguely familiar. There were times she truly wished that all that information about Earth hadn't been lost. "I may have heard of the area, but I don't believe I'm familiar with it. I only spent a few years on Earth, and we were generally too busy to do much exploring outside of Metropolis." She paused and thought hard. "I believe that's in the former United States of America, if you're familiar with that?"

Yes, she was using the present tense. She wouldn't use past tense until someone (Brainy) had some outside verification that their universes had been destroyed.

[thirdeyesighted.livejournal.com]

"America? Heavens no, they're quite far apart." somehow, the idea of other worlds was easier to get used to than people from different time periods. She sighed lightly, and steered the conversation back in a relevant direction. "Nevertheless, I'm sure we can both agree that we didn't come here to discuss geography, yes?"

[hatngartersnake.livejournal.com]

"Very true," Jeka said. "Down to business, then. I am not uncapable of telepathy, but the primary focus of my abilities is to alter or influence the senses of others. My abilities are actually similar to what Stacy does in the Sensoriums, only I cannot actually make physical alterations the way she can. It's an inborn trait rather than a magical one, and I'm the first instance of it in my family, as far as we can tell."

That seemed to cover everything. She gestured to Satori. "And you?"

[thirdeyesighted.livejournal.com]

"Well, I can't do anything that impressive," in spite of downplaying her own usefulness, Satori smiled subtly. "But I can read the thoughts of others as naturally as you might hear what they say out loud."

She paused for a moment, trying to pick a suitably unknowable example. "For example, whenever you think of mind-reading, you associate it with a blonde-haired woman, young but taller than me."

[hatngartersnake.livejournal.com]

"Saturn Girl; she's one of the Legion's founders and one of the most powerful telepaths in the entire United Planets sphere." Jeka's lips quirked up in a smirk. "Although I suppose I didn't need to tell you that. Surface thoughts only, or can you go deeper?"

[thirdeyesighted.livejournal.com]

"Surface thoughts, and with a bit more concentration, memories." Satori dug a bit deeper into Sensor's heart, but decided it wasn't necessary to demonstrate this time. "The subconscious, I'm afraid, is closed to me."

[hatngartersnake.livejournal.com]

"I'm not entirely certain how one would go about reading the subconscious anyway," Jeka said smoothly. "Does your telepathy go only one way, or can you plant thoughts in the minds you read as well?"

[thirdeyesighted.livejournal.com]

"No." Satori looked around at the architecture, her Third Eye remaining focused on Jeka. "That, I gather, is your specialty, not mine."

[hatngartersnake.livejournal.com]

Jeka shook her head. "I can't plant thoughts; only hijack sense information. I can make them think they see something in the shadows, but I can't alter their own thoughts." She shrugged. "But I suppose we'll find out more about each other as we work together. How do you think we should go about experimenting?"

[thirdeyesighted.livejournal.com]

A smile spread across Satori's face. "We'll need a volunteer."

[hatngartersnake.livejournal.com]

Jeka answered with a small smile of her own.

"Let's go find one."