"Hearing implies one sense." Andrea kept her forward lean, leaving this as a conversation she was choosing to engage in for the moment. There wasn't any reason to do otherwise. Mike's curiosity was fairly common. "It's a little more involved than that. I don't just hear Jacqueline. I know, and I feel, and I understand and see all while the parts of thought that comes across in something other than words are bringing us to an understanding. I know her, and she knows me."

She brought her hands up, lacing her fingers together slowly, until her hands were clasped in front of her. Andy looked at her conjoined fingers, then across the table, to Mike.

"You're so tightly bound up together when you're in a strong Drift, you don't have to find time to lay things out logically. You know who you are, and you know who your partner is, and you simply do."