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Nibbling at the fruit-bread, Renata considered how best to phrase this. At last, after a sip of wine -- a very good wine, a sweet rich one -- she said: "To be candid, it is more natural for a telepath to develop barriers than not; it is a protective mechanism. It should not be a thing of great difficulty to learn to control these. In extraordinary cases, such as when extreme trauma of some kind has been suffered, the individual may develop such strong barriers that he cannot use his laran at all -- it is as though he never had it -- and for that, a catalyst telepath is needed, to awaken again the power that has been driven into dormancy. Gillian is quite the opposite. She has endured trauma, certainly, yet she has become all the more keenly sensitised for all that." She frowned. "These things are difficult to explain." Oh, she wished she could show him; but that would never be, and that was something Renata had accepted. It was simply so different, to need to put these things into words.