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present. The way that Emily is able to view her information is by "third person omniscient" as an objective observer or "first person singular" by seeing through the other person's (or even animal's) eyes. These visions are only the truth, the reality (in other words, what actually happened or will happen if she doesn't react); they are not perceptions, delusions, nor hallucinations. Oftentimes, Emily's visions give her pieces of a much larger puzzle as opposed to the entire picture. Her abilities work through her mind, which isn't always a reliable nor linear projector. Because her visions don't always give her the entire picture, they are subject to Emily's doubts and often tension is added to her use of these visions. However, Emily has to act according to what she's been given in her visions and according to her own conscience. Her abilities can sometimes come to activation by will, sometimes involuntary, and sometimes not at all due to her psyche not being warmed up enough...furthermore, her abilities can have a 'mind of their own' which means that she is not ever in complete control of them. Even so, her abilities have an intelligence that leads Emily to solve whatever mystery she has been led to by a mixture of these visions and other, more conventional and less extra-sensory-perceptive, means of gathering information. Also, Emily can gather information about herself by way of these abilities because her mind, psyche or 'dead zone' is in touch with her body, which means that her abilites do not have to be set off by any outside source as they can come from within Emily herself. Lastly, Emily is not a mind reader, she cannot move objects telepathically, she's not a firestarter, nor a healer. She can be unusually empathic and can sense psychic traces of people who once walked in the same space she might be in, yet she is not a medium.
There has been a significant event that has affected Emily's 'abilities': time travel. Going back in time has made getting visions scarce (though not completely unexistant as she did receive one or two). Though Emily herself does not know how time travel affected her abilities, she theorizes that because she went back enough in time to where she did not yet exist, her abilities would then not exist. These effects have had consequences: Emily felt incomplete, handicapped, and experienced pain while going back in time...a pain that lingered during her time travel but did not intensify. What will happen once she comes back to the present? Will her somewhat-damaged mind suffer even more damage as a result? How will her mind cope?
It is interesting how Emily's time travel was nothing more than a dream. And yet, in that dream she felt these effects as if she was awake. Was her mind simulating the effects? Could it be possible that through her dreams she was being prepared for such a situation? |
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