"Don't," she said hurriedly before taking a breath and trying to look a little less like she was about to make a run for it. "Don't look into my head, ok? I mean I'm cool with you being a bazillion years old from another planet and the whole mind powers thing is...yeah. It's a lot. Kind of amazing but a lot. Just please don't go into my head."

She's not entirely sure why the idea makes her blood run cold, but it does and she's not going to question the feeling.

"Do you remember the man we saw in the woods? Or not man. Demon thing that looked like a man. The one that I recognized?"