[He lilts. He has to admire that Richard is bothering to consider this project at all.]
But I have no intention of replicating the Echo's effects in full. Even if I did, the Echo is not capable of the sort of mind reading I believe you are worried about.
[People with the Echo can peer into someone else's past, however. Fandaniel decides not to mention it. It's not an ability he'd want to spread around the Chosen anyway.]
'Tis...hmmm...
How to put it.
'Tis the ability to comprehend the intent of another being. To know what they would have you know, even if you cannot speak the same language. 'Tis an entirely consensual form of communication, in other words. We'd have no need to guard our secrets from one another...
Ha!
Imagine if it could enable us to read each other's minds! Why, the bloody carnage would flood the streets in moments. We'd never get anything done.
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[He lilts. He has to admire that Richard is bothering to consider this project at all.]
But I have no intention of replicating the Echo's effects in full. Even if I did, the Echo is not capable of the sort of mind reading I believe you are worried about.
[People with the Echo can peer into someone else's past, however. Fandaniel decides not to mention it. It's not an ability he'd want to spread around the Chosen anyway.]
'Tis...hmmm...
How to put it.
'Tis the ability to comprehend the intent of another being. To know what they would have you know, even if you cannot speak the same language. 'Tis an entirely consensual form of communication, in other words. We'd have no need to guard our secrets from one another...
Ha!
Imagine if it could enable us to read each other's minds! Why, the bloody carnage would flood the streets in moments. We'd never get anything done.