Karl stared at her in open fascination. He had been hearing about these "visions" for weeks, but he had never actually... witnessed anybody having one, or the immediate aftermath. There were a flood of questions in his mind that he wanted to ask her, as a curious scholar and as a potential recipient of these phenomena both, about both the experience and the actual content of what she had seen.

But then his eyes softened, and his held breath came out in a quiet sigh. He gently slid his hand towards hers across the table, and instead, in an equally gentle voice, he asked just one.

"Are you alright, Chloe?"