“[color=f26522]Yeah![/color]” Tillie beamed at Quinn’s conjecture, and inwardly exhaled a little sigh of relief. Okay, so she [i]could[/i] explain things without tripping over herself and getting it all wrong—that was good! But it still wouldn’t do to leave things half-correct, or only partly described. She chewed her lip for a moment, contemplating how she could convey herself without sounding like a graduate thesis. 

“[color=f26522]Well—kinda. Uhm! You got the right idea, phasing is definitely tied to your connection. See—and forgive me for getting a little more complex—phasing is like a secondary thing, and we’re not…actually super [i]sure[/i] how it works. The way you said it, y’know, with everyone having different sized bridges, that’s more or less one of the prevailing theories, revolving more around the idea that everyone has a different baseline connection. The other one is more like…everyone starts with the same connection, and the variance is just how [i]fast[/i] the bridge expands.[/color]

“[color=f26522]I lean a bit more towards that one cause it makes phasing a bit more concrete. Uhm! Everyone phases differently, right? So I like to think of it like, everyone’s connection clears at different rates, and also, everyone phases at a different point in that clearance. It also stands that once you do pass that point, your clearance rate speeds [i]way[/i] up! And we don’t really know why [i]that[/i] happens, either.[/color]” She flipped the cover over, tapped the title. “[color=f26522]That’s where the ‘meta’ part comes in, I guess. And the ‘human’ bit.[/color]

“[color=f26522]‘Cause Modir, y’know, they don’t phase. That’s a Savior thing—a human thing. But it’s also clearly something the Modir are inherently, physiologically capable of. There’s something unique about your place bridging the Circuit, some way you fit in, that allows it. Isn’t that so cool? It’s like our species were made for each other![/color]” She blinked, and her excited smile withered a bit. “[color=f26522][i]Eugh,[/i] uhm! Now that I say it out loud, actually, it sounds kinda creepy. Maybe don’t think of it that way.[/color]”

Tillie was grateful when the subject veered, though she did find the change odd. No phasing? She didn’t dismiss the idea outright, but she did spend several moments racking her brain, searching for anything she might have read that would support Quinn’s question. 

Eventually though, she shook her head. “[color=f26522]Hm. No, I…hmm. I don’t think so. At least as far as I learned, phasing is really a [i]yes-no[/i] thing. Granted, some people are really small bridges—or slow-growing bridges, if you prefer—uhm! But those people generally don’t get cleared to pilot even if they technically can. I guess it’s theoretically possible for someone’s phasing point to be so close to the Circuit closing they would never know, but, I’ve never heard of a pilot who [i]couldn’t[/i] phase.[/color]”