Illicit Relationship

An invisible force swept over Audrey. Smiling, she repeated Susie's words, then nodded.

"Yes, that's exactly what I think."

The suggestion was quietly planted, while Audrey, protected by the "angel's blessing," seemed to float above her own body, watching everything calmly from a detached perspective.

Susie is very talented. She can hypnotize me even using an ability above her own Sequence. Hmm, that's partly because I didn't resist. If the target strongly resists, or the suggestion concerns something important or threatens their life, their subconscious will fight back too...

As she pondered this, her consciousness returned to her body. She had already forgotten why she had asked Susie to use the Travel Journal, and even why she had spent 400 pounds to rent it.

She put the journal away, summoned a maid, and changed into a dress that allowed her to move easily. Skirting the reception room where her father and brother were talking to visitors, she left the mansion through a side door and took a carriage from Empress Borough to Hillston Borough.

Miss Empress lives nearby on Burningham Road. If necessary, she'll come straight over to help me... I hope it doesn't come to that. It would expose me completely to the Psychology Alchemists' senior members. I'd probably have to live in a cathedral long-term to seek protection... Wait, why would Christine need to help me? I'm only going to see Hampres. His Sequence is even lower than mine...

Various thoughts flashed through Audrey's mind. Only after she used the power of the angel's blessing to analyze her own mind through psychology, then examined it carefully from a detached perspective, did she "remember" Hvin Rambis's true identity: a member of the Psychology Alchemists' Review Council, a Sequence 4 Manipulator.

*Hmm, I deliberately used Psychological Suggestion to remove that