2017.09.06 Page 990 - The Trouble with Telepathy

**Natani:** Hey, hang on!
**Reni:** (thoughts) _Oh, hello. You are the other wolf... uh..._
**Natani:** N-Natani. And what do you mean you can’t speak Keidran? I can understand you right now!
**Reni:** (thoughts) _Oh, right. Yes. We dragons “speak” telepathically. It’s universal. You hear my intentions, and as you speak words, I can hear yours._
**Reni:** (thoughts) _I **have** learned human. But even for me, speaking **this** way is a necessity. I am limited by my biology just as any creature. If I were to try and speak human out loud in this form, it’s be... well... Ehem..._
**Reni:** _**Grash itsh griah! Rwar arrr rawrrawrarar!**_
**Flora:** Okay, we get it!
**Reni:** (thoughts) _...Sorry. A-anyway, a lot of dragons just rely on telepathy. But as I’ve discovered, the flaw with telepathy is that it only works in real time._
**Reni:** (thoughts) _The people in a memory aren’t real. They don’t have minds for me to read. Even the wolf who’s mind I’m in doesn’t translate. People remember their past but not **exactly** what they were thinking at any given time, usually._
**Reni:** (thoughts) _All I hear are sounds. It’s frustrating and honestly pretty unnerving to suddenly not understand the sounds that people are making._
**Reni:** (thoughts) _That being said, after listening for a while, one name does come up repeatedly. A name I believe may be of importance in all of this..._
**Reni:** (thoughts) _**Clovis.**_