They study her orb for a few more seconds, then hand it back to her. “Curiosity always came easily to me. It used to feel like a state of being rather than an emotion, but it helped me feel like I had a purpose.” It was part of what drove them to want a purpose at all. “I had trouble wanting to connect with people, so I wanted to know things about them instead. Curiosity was my mind’s way of replacing connection. Anger could be your mind’s way of replacing another emotion.”