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you'll have to tell me more about it, sometime. i don't think i've ever met anyone quite that perceptive before.

maybe we use a system? if i leave the bathroom door open on my side, it's fair game, but if it's closed, then you hang up the metaphorical phone?

Ask any question you'd like.

[ lestat doesn't have much in the way he can hide anymore, not ever since the dinner that outed the vampires to the rest of the manor. what would be the point in keeping the wool over amy's eyes? better she hears it from him than any of the other guests. ]

Fair enough. Though if you do leave the door open, I just might be tempted to walk through it on some occasion.

okay, well.
you said you can direct your attention, which means it's not quite like how i'd hear ambient noise. how far can it go?

[ There's a pause before she answers the rest of it, her eyes traveling across the room again — weighing the text, arguably harmless, against a nature she already knows to be almost unfairly charming. ]

you know what they say. an open door is as good as an invitation.

Put another way: if I didn't direct it, the resulting headache would be excruciating.

[ and not just because he'd be privy to every mortal's passing thought within a certain radius. ]

I'll remember that for the future. [ though he does make a point of observing the closed door that persists now, between them. ]

how long did it take you to learn how to do that? to cope?

and, obviously, i'll observe the same rules if you leave your door closed.

Not long by immortal standards, but my perception of time is rather skewed these days.

Of course. Though you'd be welcome to eavesdrop yourself. [ he's being cheeky there, as if he wouldn't be able to sense her spying. ]