Some kind of 7-7-7 thing going around...
Wherein you go to the 7th page of your current WIP, and copy/paste 7 lines starting from the 7th on the page.
This was actually a really good exercise, because it reminded me that since Mercy uses this ability in the prologue, it really needs to come up again later in the book. :)
(It might not format to 7 lines on LJ, but it was 7 lines in my Word doc.)
So she didn't use her telepathy to look inside the Captain's head and see if she could find out more about him. It was enough to know that he had a daughter who worked with him, one Mercy's approximate age. A father would probably hesitate to airlock or enslave a girl if he caught her stowing away on his ship. Especially if his daughter was standing right there.
Decision made, Mercy used her Talent in the most passive way possible, projecting what she thought of as her don't look at me protocol. Cross-posted from Dreamwidth - there are
comments there. Comments welcome on either post.
This was actually a really good exercise, because it reminded me that since Mercy uses this ability in the prologue, it really needs to come up again later in the book. :)
(It might not format to 7 lines on LJ, but it was 7 lines in my Word doc.)
So she didn't use her telepathy to look inside the Captain's head and see if she could find out more about him. It was enough to know that he had a daughter who worked with him, one Mercy's approximate age. A father would probably hesitate to airlock or enslave a girl if he caught her stowing away on his ship. Especially if his daughter was standing right there.
Decision made, Mercy used her Talent in the most passive way possible, projecting what she thought of as her don't look at me protocol. Cross-posted from Dreamwidth - there are
comments there. Comments welcome on either post.