Normally Ione waits to let someone else talk first, so it's notable enough that Ione is the first to speak up. The fact that she's also been a bit paler than normal is also telling.
"I did very little speaking," she admits, "but a lot of feeling, and most of it was very unpleasant but I don't think --" She stops talking and takes a deep breath, trying again with authority instead of not being committed to what she's saying and using hedging words everywhere. "He wasn't throwing strong, viscerally negative feelings to hurt me or put me off my game. He didn't know what I was sensing, though he may have picked up on something at this point. But, I mean, I can tell when people are faking disruptive emotions in order to put me on the wrong path or get me out of a room and this wasn't that."
Ione knows the majority are inclined to just not trust Shuos Jedao, so the preamble seemed necessary because of what she's going to say next.
"I wasn't probing because I need skin-to-skin contact for that, so what I've got is choppy, but he mentioned being blackmailed, and that person sounds like a much bigger concern than Jedao himself. I mean, verbally we picked up on that but also emotionally, I thought I was going to be sick for a second, without skin contact. He seemed more as if he wanted us to be, hopes that we are the answer to an impossible problem, and maybe we are. Which means he'll be much more inclined to work with us than against us, especially if ... I caught almost a fear of something that might happen, not something that had happened. So my educated guess is if we can help him out of a path he might otherwise be stuck taking, he'll help us as well."
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Re: how was that conversation with Jedao, anyway?
Date: 2019-05-28 01:49 pm (UTC)"I did very little speaking," she admits, "but a lot of feeling, and most of it was very unpleasant but I don't think --" She stops talking and takes a deep breath, trying again with authority instead of not being committed to what she's saying and using hedging words everywhere. "He wasn't throwing strong, viscerally negative feelings to hurt me or put me off my game. He didn't know what I was sensing, though he may have picked up on something at this point. But, I mean, I can tell when people are faking disruptive emotions in order to put me on the wrong path or get me out of a room and this wasn't that."
Ione knows the majority are inclined to just not trust Shuos Jedao, so the preamble seemed necessary because of what she's going to say next.
"I wasn't probing because I need skin-to-skin contact for that, so what I've got is choppy, but he mentioned being blackmailed, and that person sounds like a much bigger concern than Jedao himself. I mean, verbally we picked up on that but also emotionally, I thought I was going to be sick for a second, without skin contact. He seemed more as if he wanted us to be, hopes that we are the answer to an impossible problem, and maybe we are. Which means he'll be much more inclined to work with us than against us, especially if ... I caught almost a fear of something that might happen, not something that had happened. So my educated guess is if we can help him out of a path he might otherwise be stuck taking, he'll help us as well."