>>5537663You go get your pokedex and ring Detective Winters' number.
She picks up on the second ring.
++"Yeah, Winters."++ She says briskly.
She doesn't sound in the least bit tired.
"Detective. It's Fiona Armstrong." Fie says. "Just want to vet something Winston, the Psychic gym leader told me last night while I was asking for advice with regards to Holly." She says, apparently deciding it's too early in the morning to be playing games.
++"It's a good thing I'm not at work right now."++ She says, more to herself than Fie. ++"Go ahead, what d'you want to know?"++
"So, Winston went and suggested that Alex defeating a 'construct' of Holly's fears during a dream she pulled us all into resulted in him becoming a 'capstone support' for Holly's powers." Fie begins.
++"That sounds about right for a powerful emergent Psychic, but really? Alex went and broke a Fear Construct?"++ Winters says, sounding downright impressed.
"Beat it down and shattered it into motes of light in the dream." Fie confirms. "That's not the part that I really want to check, but is that significant?" She asks.
++"In the sense that it's the sort of thing only a trained Psychic can generally do."++ Winters replies. ++Particularly a Fear Construct. They're manifestations of a persons inner-most fears and tend to be incredibly hard to deal with. Usually, it requires the person it originates from to directly combat it in their mindscape, empowered by a psychic to effectively destroy, backed by conventional therapy. For a stranger to destroy one like that and a normal person at that..."++ She trails off in thought. ++"My first thought is that Holly must really believe in you, Alex. My second, is that she's stupid powerful."++
"Okay..." Fie says, sounding disquieted.
++"Have you found a pokemon capable of teaching her yet?"++ Winters asks. ++"I'd hate to imagine the fallout if she had a flare up if he wasn't there to stabilise or ground her."++
"Erm... no." Fie admits awkwardly. "Alex was going on the weekend. And I guess Holly is as well." She adds. "But grounding, that's the big thing. Can you tell us what 'grounding' entails for a Psychic?"
++"In the context of a flare-up, just proximity or physical with who or whatever the specific Emergent has Anchored to will help mitigate, calm or outright dissipate it."++ Winters replies.
"Thaaank you~" Fie says sweetly.
++"I wasn't finished. In a more general context, it entails undoing the emotional 'deadening' overuse of psychic power can induce. It's a particular problem for Emergents, because they have less control and it tends to default to 'always on.' Incidentally, alcohol makes it worse, so much as you might want to experiment, don't give Holly any."++ Acadi advises.
(Part 2)
