Phoebe smiled, and took Devika's hand,  giving it a quick shake, and then out of respect for Devika's abilities, she removed her hand. She doubted the gloves fully worked, and wondered at the torment of continually feeling others emotions. It was hard enough feeling her own. But others? "Thank you" she said, before going kver to Nick. 

She ruffled his hair without any thought, before grabbing the wheelchairs handles


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Connor stayed silent, having said all he could, but also because he wanted to know what Anthony said. He picked up the 'unnessacary suffering', and frowned. Did that mean that in otherwords, if Anthony could use suffering for his own gain, that wasn't unessacary? He didn't want to think about that, and hoped Kijani didn't pick that up as well