But there is no reason to do anything other than impress, rather than terrify — Henry might be a Not Great person, but he rarely maliciously uses his powers for no reason at all, and to do so now wouldn't make any sense. He needs to ply friendliness to survive in these early days; he has to make connections that might somehow prove useful, and he must cast a wide net to do so.
All that to say: he's just going to trick her mind into seeing an illusion, assuming that she has no real defenses to his psionic powers. Because, as he spreads both hands in front of her, she will see nothing but flowers blooming in his palms — a large, colorful array of them, just the blossoms with no stem. For a moment, the air even scents of them.
And a tiny little jumping spider resting happily in the petals of one, looking up at her with a o_o expression.]
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[To say the least.
But there is no reason to do anything other than impress, rather than terrify — Henry might be a Not Great person, but he rarely maliciously uses his powers for no reason at all, and to do so now wouldn't make any sense. He needs to ply friendliness to survive in these early days; he has to make connections that might somehow prove useful, and he must cast a wide net to do so.
All that to say: he's just going to trick her mind into seeing an illusion, assuming that she has no real defenses to his psionic powers. Because, as he spreads both hands in front of her, she will see nothing but flowers blooming in his palms — a large, colorful array of them, just the blossoms with no stem. For a moment, the air even scents of them.
And a tiny little jumping spider resting happily in the petals of one, looking up at her with a o_o expression.]