> Justin is seated in a plain, sturdy wooden chair beside a bed, upon which 
Razz lays.  His eyes are shut tight, either in strenuous concentration or 
fitful slumber, and he is motionless, silent.  Razz's state is difficult to 
determine from this vantage point;  still, also, but not in the rigid attitude 
which Justin maintains.  The scene fills most of one side of the small room 
the Freedom Blades assigned as quarters; an identical one, through an 
adjoining door, completes the suite, but it's hard to tell whose room is 
whose, as yet.  What's going on right now is apparently the very end of some 
quite involved psychic surgery procedure.

Razz concentrated on relaxing. Simple, isn't it? You just lie there and let 
go, relax, let down your defenses... Well. Concentrating on her breathing, the 
elf girl tried to clear her mind all but one thought - Justin knows what he's 
doing. It's all going to be okay.

> > Justin /knew/ what he /was/ doing, is a more appropriate phrase, by this 
point in the operation.  All he's doing now is mending the tiny gaps in her 
mental screens through which he entered; suturing the incisions, like.  Her 
new perceptions should be beginning function within the next few minutes.

> > Justin is't sure it should be taking all /that/ long.  Perhaps he's made 
some connection he ought not have.  He returns (apparently) to wakefulness 
aprubtly, and leans forwars to nudge Razz gently in the shoulder.  "Right.  
All done, then, Razz."

Razz opened her eyes abruptly, looking somewhat surprised. Done? It wasn't 
at /all/ like the times when Gareth or Crulath were messing around her 
head. "Already? I barely felt anything."

> > Justin smiles, thinly.  "I tried my best.  You shouldn't try walking yet, 
though, wait until your perceptions are functioning.  Y'can sit up if you 
like."

Razz does, a bit too quickly, apparantly. Holding her head, she lifted her 
head again, more carefully this time. "What did you do?"

> > Justin finds words with which to explain the procedure he'd just 
completed.  "I... opened your mind up, to new ways of receiving and 
interpreting data, more or less."

Razz might not have asked, for all she understood of that sentence. Then 
again, she doesn't really need to, as her mind choose that time to open up its 
new senses and test out its new limbs.

> > Justin knows from his own experience that there's nothing he can do for 
her right now except catch her if she looks like she's falling, and wait until 
she's a trifle closer to coherence.  It's a big step even from normal sight to 
the patterns of life and thought that you perceive with your mind, and he can 
only imagine it's a bigger one from complete blindness.

Razz is silent, not always a good sign, but the reverse isn't always true 
either. Or is it suppose to be the reverse isn't always wrong? The author is 
confusing herself, and despite what Nick says, she is not sleepy. Not at all. 
She merely needs to go shop for a brain. Her head remains still, thought the 
young elf herself might've thought otherwise. Eventually she gets a hold of 
herself and turns her head towards Justin, a wondering looking coming into her 
face. "I can feel you," she says, breaking the silence.

> > Justin nods, slowly, smiling again.  "Well.  I should hope so, after all 
of that...  ahem.  Is it going to be helpful, do you think?  Some people can 
never quite adapt, they have to have it turned off again."

Razz looks somewhat dazed, even as her face started to light up at the fact 
that she could /see/ again. "I think so..." Getting up from the bedding, she 
attempted to walk around the room. "Thank you."

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