I awoke on a boat, which rocked one way and then the other, doing something horrible to my stomach. I struggled to my feet and looked around, which wasn’t worth it. No sign of land, no cloud in the sky, nothing.

“Hi,” a woman’s voice called from behind me.
“Ugh, hi. So where are we?” I needed information.
“On a boat, at sea,” she replied. “Beyond that, none of us have any idea.”

Telepathy doesn’t work like people think. What happens is that I visualise a person, concentrate, enter a trance, and wake up inside their head – a place where everything that happens is a metaphor for their personality and habitual thoughts. That might sound disturbing, but the metaphors are too vague to reveal anyone’s actual secrets.

I’ve never done much with this gift, but lately I’ve been wondering if I can use it to help people. Maybe if I stay inside these worlds long enough to change something, this will change the people, too. So based on what I can see, what sort of mind am I in now?

Lost. Empty. Unstable. Sick.