[Listening, Mantis nods, some part of her internally sizing up the tall blond man who seemed to have so many questions. She is finding that she rather likes answering them, and it is a change from asking them all herself.

And not only has no one ever asked her that question but...]

I have never thought to try it before. [And now, she wonders why she has not.] I am not sure that it will work very well. I must concentrate to inflict a feeling, if I am inflicting one on myself, it will break my concentration and then I will no longer be concentrating, and I will no longer feel it. I am only able to affect others for a short while...