"There are lots of ways people can do undesirable things to other people, and there is a solution to all of them in principle, which is for people not to do those things," says Oat. "If just being this sort of telepath changed the entire way I think so that telepathic guesses were always more understandable than ordinary guesses, there would be no solution to that at all."

"...Do you not like understanding people?"

"I haven't done enough of it to know if I like it or not. But if it's a mutant power just making me feel like you're more understandable than anyone else, without you actually being more understandable, then that's horrible."