body control

I very nearly twitched, I’m not going to lie. The only thing that stopped me, really, was the simple fact that I made a conscious point to keep track of how I reacted—a necessity given that I hide a variety of…noticeable things within an illusion. I had to consciously display anything I wanted to show on my face which was useful for when I wanted to hide something, but which meant I had to keep track of what I wanted to show as well.

That was both difficult and simple. The breadth of my senses was such that keeping track of it all was easy enough, but then I had to sort through it and decide what to do. Given how much my biology had diverged from the norm over time, that was more complicated then it seemed, since there were a lot of normal reactions I had to insert and abnormal ones that needed removing. Amusingly, one of the reasons I was so good at restraining myself was the simple fact that reacting visibly could be a huge pain in the ass.