Mikoto Replies To A Text Message From Telrim

[Below is an archived version of one thread response to a LiveJournal post here, because LiveJournal became hard to impossible for me to access. Icons and threading not preserved, nor are other peoples' replies.]

[Telrim 4219 (in_the_cracks@livejournal.com)]
What can’t you learn from reading? What can’t be understood until you’ve been there, done that?

Or an unrelated question: how squeamish are you?

Telrim is currently peeling bits of protective glove off her host’s chemical-burned hands and keeping an anaesthetic tool in easy reach. If she and her host were present, that might give away how very related it is.