[She can see the wariness, and she could be offended, but...she gets it. Minds are complicated enough on their own - tricky to handle, hard to heal. Someone going in and rummaging around? Of course there are risks. Of course he wouldn't want to just have at it, and it makes her glad he's Helena's Warden.

Besides, some psychics aren't scrupulous. Some of them -

No. She's not thinking about that, right now.]

First of all - I understand. Really. [She smiles, wry but sincere.] Telepathy is...it's easy to mishandle. Easy to abuse. I was lucky, that the first one I met was such a good man.

[She's quiet, for a moment, as she considers.] Charles...he walked me through life before the accident. Reminded me of who I was without...all of that. Of what I could have, if I wanted to.

I'm not - that wouldn't work with Helena, would it? [She didn't have a before.]