"All are well, so far as I can tell," she says, "though I'm sure they would prefer to assure you so themselves."

There's a small smile playing at her mouth; when was the last time someone cared how her gifts affected her? And now, between Kim Ford and Lan Wangji and Ingress, it seems this place is full of sympathetic friends. But she waves a hand, trying to stop Ingress from traveling too far down the wrong path.

"I am not a seer, not really. It's a...a kind of side effect of the powers I was born with. And I don't believe so, but I can't be sure; I never remember them once the trance is over. If no one tells me I've seen something, I'd go my whole life without ever realizing I'd made some kind of damned prophecy."