"Which is also perfectly acceptable." Susan more brightly. "You're fifteen. And there will be errors in judgment. That doesn't mean your motives and approach to helping people aren't basically sound."

She studied him a moment. "That it's rare, and that you are allowed to exercise it to such extremes may be strange, or uncanny-- but it doesn't make you at all crazy. Questioning it, comparing it to 'normal' people, trying to explain it in terms of guilt or grief-- that isn't going to change that you have that quality, or that wish. If you were foolhardy in its use, or uncaring of the consequences, then I would have a concern. But you're not."

"Can you accept what I'm saying about this?"