Grrl Power #750 – ARC-Shrink
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This is the 750th page of Grrl Power! Arbitrary round numbers FTW! Thank you guys so much for all your support over the years. It’s so awesome to be able to share these stories and characters with everyone. The 57 foot commute to work doesn’t suck either. :D Here’s to another 250 pages, and then a thousand more after that!
Disclaimer: I’m not a psychologist. I’m sure many of you are stunned by this, but don’t expect a super deep dive here. It would be fun to actually analyze Sydney a bit, but anyone remotely acquainted with the profession would probably hurt themselves rolling their eyes if I tried to write some serious diagnosis.
Dr. Frost comes to us courtesy of Beryllium Mask of Patreon. If you didn’t know, there’s a tier over there that allows people to have a cameo of a character of their own or even themselves. (It can take a while, but I’ll work them in eventually.) Dr. Frost is sort of a hybrid. I didn’t have a picture to work from, but Beryllium Mask’s description of herself was just “Betazed dark eyes” and dark brown hair that’s sometimes dyed red. So I split the difference there. I guess the doc is letting it grow out. She’s probably been busy ever since they started putting the team together. That or she’s just giving her follicles a break before re-dying it. Like Doc Chevvy, she doesn’t work exclusively with the team, given their small size, but as Sydney asks about here, she has the clearance and is used to working with military personnel as well as supers and some of the unique challenges they face.
I’ve finally updated the vote incentive. I’m sorry for letting the other one languish for so long. This piece isn’t finished yet, but I finally got a chance to do a little work on it. It was sitting on my drive for a while because I didn’t like her face, so I redid it and it’s turning out pretty good so far. Jabberwokky is supposed to have that “you should see the other guy” look on her face, so that may need a little work still. I’m not sure, but I kind of think I like the teal pencils. We’ll see how it turns out as I keep noodling on it.
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Quick tip on how to do this here. Let Sydney do the talking. For a therapy session like this, all the therapist should be doing is asking leading questions and let Sydney get there on her own. Good therapists are less doctors with answers and more guides that lead patients to the problem and the solution, or at least how to manage the problem.
Sydney’s got some serious ADHD and an even serious-er sleep debt.
She’s gonna need some prodding to stay on target.
She should probably be allowed to collapse for the day and talk to her tomorrow if her nightmares don’t reoccur. Just put her on “Sick Call.”
Remember, it was Sydney’s idea, she was not ‘ordered’ to go
This doesn’t actually matter all that much. Former AF here, had to go to mental health, and have been Dx’d with schizotypal PD while there.
When you’re in the AF (it’s different in the other branches, marines especially have a very hard time with mental health, my brother was in the marines it ruined him), going to mental health, if you ask for it, is basically a giant red flag to your supers to let you go. In fact, First Sergeants will basically order your direct supervisor to let you go, and once an appointment is set up, the appointment will take priority over just about any other order (unless you’re actively in a deployed combat zone).
What Peggy did, insisting Sydney go to PT first, is a pretty big no-no. Granted, she’s a lieutenant, not a sergeant, which means she has different training (officers don’t get the same ‘take care of your troops FIRST’ training, they get ‘take care of the MISSION first’ training), so that actually is rather realistic.
ARCHON seems to take after the AF more than the other four branches so far, but it surprising a First Sergeant hasn’t shown up yet. Though this particular storyline would absolutely perfect for their introduction. A First Sergeant’s entire job is basically ‘care for the troops’ above all else. Troop morale, troop health, troop well-being, troop financial situations, and also troop reprimands and punishments. In fact, it was my First Sergeant that noticed me having issues and recommended me to go to the doctor in the first place (for which I’m extremely grateful, as it’s why I didn’t actually do something monumentally stupid >< )
I appreciate that the appointment would take priority over just about anything, especially if requested directly, but presumably it would normally* be scheduled for a set time in the normal way? In that case, if the first available appointment isn’t immediate, would it really be an issue to insist on a normal(-ish) schedule in the interim? I’d be surprised if the morning PT session isn’t done before the start of office hours, so taking part wouldn’t materially delay the time that Sydney could go to see Dr. Frost.
* i.e. excluding cases where a few hours would make a major difference, either to the progression of the issue itself or to the chance of secondary harms. Sydney’s behaviour with Peggy certainly looks like it would warrant an urgency level of this-day or even this-morning, but looks stable enough not to need this-hour.
And in the military, they’ll need a doctor’s confirmation before letting her go on “sick call.”
…You know. Bureaucracy. It don’t happen until it’s on paper & if it’s not on paper, it better not have happened.
And if it’s anything like how it was portrayed on the TV show “Catch 22” (with George Clooney), even that won’t be enough
“All a pilot has to do to get out of flying, is to ask. But, if a pilot asks to be cleared from flying, it means he is okay to fly. Being afraid for one’s safety is a sign of a sane mind, and thus, he is not crazy.” (probably totally butchered that quote, butt it was when the guy who drops the bombs is talking to the shrink in an attempt to get out of flying, because every time he reaches the number of missions to be sent home, they raise the number)
Basically, you would have to be crazy to fly, but if you ask to not fly, then you are not crazy
It’s a old saw that dates back to WWI where In terms of a combat pilot could count on 40 to 60 hours before being killed often from simple trying to take off or land.
That is true, and well said :)
Although they do also need to get to know you to know what the problem actually is, in order to help guide you First sessions tend to focus on that, at least in my experience.
Different psychs also have slightly different approaches (they are human too after all), and one of the challenges of psychotherapy is finding someone you work well with.
All that said, I’m pleasantly surprised with this initial depiction. Given the stigma around therapy it certainly could be a lot worse.
My only suggestion would be that, at least basedon on the mental health professionals I’ve worked with, they do show some emotion.
I think there’s a tendancy for people to think of psychiatrists and psychologists as being mysterious and inscrutable. It’s true that there’s an analytic tendancy in the nature of the job. Empathy is also an essential skill to develop though, in order to understand people. The people I’ve worked best with are those who I find relatable, because it’s easier to develop a rapport and allow yourself to trust them.
While true, it can be very hard to GET some people to start talking.
That is where the true skill of a shrink lies.
Most people have trouble getting Sydney to stop talking.
There is a difference between open talking just to vocalize things and emotional damage talking. Otherwise normally open people can clam up hard when talking about trauma, and some who are otherwise okay with talking about tough subjects can become real reticent when it comes to personal trauma. A lot of people will use every social trick in the book to avoid the problem entirely unless they truly feel like they are in a safe enough place to talk about it.
But that is just how real trauma works. Its the emotional equivalent to a nasty, deep scar. Its meant to be a permanent reminder to whatever experience you went through, that you are to NEVER go through it again under any circumstance. That anxiety people feel from trauma is meant as an in-built forceful aversion to prevent you from going back into danger. Note that that danger does not have to be real: only that the body physiologically felt itself in danger enough to trigger a traumatic response. This is why you get obvious trauma reactions from rape or battery victims, but also people who sometimes suffer from weird trauma like babies crying, hoses running, or even certain types of condescending language. In those “lighter” cases, however, usually the trauma reaction was built up over time, and is usually associated with some terrible environment conditions.
Now I am going to give a quick rundown on PTSD. Going into the nuances of PTSD in a comment is an exercise in futility, but for an introduction, PTSD is a medically acknowledged condition where you see evidence of a traumatic experience EVERYWHERE. In the people you see, in the sounds you hear, and even in the smells you smell. While normal trauma reactions can usually be cleared up with a dedicated and caring friend/family intervention that is meant to show that socially the thing causing the anxiety response is safe, PTSD is MUCH harder to deal with, and can’t really be cured. The more traumatic (and personal) the experience, the more likely one is to develop PTSD.
Which brings us back to Sydney. In the fight she had, with loud explosions everywhere, alone, is enough to cause PTSD in a person. Whether or not you want her to develop PTSD is up to you, but if you do choose to go down the route, PLEASE research it well. Well…even if you don’t go down that route, please research it anyhow, even if its just people talking about their experiences. It will give you insight into trauma reactions people have, so you can pick one that suits Sydney, and work from there.
And sorry for the long twisty comment, its late when I posted this.
Depends what sort of therapy is used. CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) has a lot more input from the therapist. On the other hand, there are self help books that illustrate CBT principles, eg https://www.amazon.co.uk/Overcoming-Anxiety-Self-help-Bahvioural-Techniques/dp/1459643410/ )
One question that is almost certain to come up, after hearing a summary of the problem, is something along the lines of:
How does that make you feel?
What do you think it means?
etc
It’s such a common question that it’s even made it into popular media (eg Analyse This or http://fractuslux.comicgenesis.com/d/20010511.html ).
That is only a question that comes up within specific school of shrinkage: not all of them ask that
Between an appearance like Victoria hand and the name Dr. Frost I haven’t been so suspicious of anyone upon their reveal since the villain of Detective Pikachu.
Ah, that’s what her appearance reminded me of. I was surprised Sydney didn’t comment on “Frost” (I’m not sure what it says about me that Emma Frost is always the first connection I have to the name), but I was trying to remember why the hair seemed so familiar.
Remember Sydney’s contract lawyer, who she was CERTAIN had super powers? Nope, just a lawyer.
Dr. Frost is probably just an ordinary shrink who’s had some experiences in her life that put her on the government’s “Trust, but Watch” list.
Who, all right, yes, frosts her tips, but seriously, who doesn’t.
No, Sydney’s contract lawyer, was Ari, the not-super guy was her investment broker
I like to think that Sydney is going to get her a freeze ray.
“If the universe doesn’t take care of it I will. I’m not letting it happened twise!”
Aurelius Shrapnel is an investment broker and financial planner, not a lawyer. Arianna’s Archon’s main lawyer.
Thank you, knew it was something like that, butt have a policy of not butchering a name intentionally (nicknames don’t fucking count!)
That wouldn’t happen to be prehensile tentacley hair, would it? Better be careful not to cause Sydney flashbacks of other tentacley things.
And happy 3/4 of the 3rd exponent of the base 10 counting system, and thank you. It’s one of the highlights of my week.
Just using my finger tentacles and none of my toe tentacles that converts to 5e6AD coincidentally that was the 2nd year of my bud.
… you’re not a fi’ at all, are you?
The name suggests they’re a fithp, so an entire herd of fi’, but gone rogue from fithp society in general? Not sure what we’re supposed to think.
Did Niven ever say if fithp could go rogue?
Is she.. human?.. Or rather, Is She.. biological?
Psychologist input: This sort of meeting would just be Sydney outlining her issues and the Doc not inputting much at all. It’s a fine start you have here really, Frost establishing herself as a trustworthy ear for Sydney to talk into.
Honestly in the longer term, in regards to PTSD… Sydney would probably be fine, all in all. Military types will actually tend to suffer worst, a relative civilian… someone who’s used to not being the toughest thing around, admitting weakness and not being in control of the situation will usually feel less of the impact from PTSD.
The nightmares are probably not a long term thing, they only manifested when Sydney was home and secure after her adventure. Letting her realise that should mitigate them and they are very unlikely to have more impact than the occasional sleepless night and perhaps more caution.
The ADHD will probably actually help Sydney here as it helps distract her from worrying.
Oh and PS: Yes everyone is different and it’s serious at whatever level it manifests but I wouldn’t be loading Sydney up on meds for this.
Oh PPS: She probably needs to get back to work as soon as she can. Reintroducing the environment when it isn’t going horribly wrong is vital.
Not a psych, but as someone recovering from trauma I tend to agree. Getting a good understanding of the problem rather than looking for a fix right now is essential, it can save a lot of time and trouble in the long run. We don’t really know where Sydney is at right now, and that’s what these conversations with a professional are for. Maybe she’ll be referred to a psychologist. Maybe medication can help. Maybe niether of those will be neccesary. Just having a point of contact and being in touch with someone who cares and hopefully will be able to understand is a great place to start from.
Hah, well, not to spoil anything, but I may have done a decent job writing her then. :)
Clearance is a real problem with the DOD. At the same time they need therapists they dont like the security risk of one person knowing too much about too many things. So the therapy department winds up being a mishmash of civilian and DOD personnel with varying security clearances and levels of experience. For really secret stuff there have been both instances of people just not getting any therapy and experiments with memory wiping tech.
i don’t like this Dr. Frost, or rather i don’t her necklace, it screams “Important person for plot stuff, will either die, actively help or screw with the characters we love” and given the rather extensive cast of primary, secondary and tertiary characters i am unsure how much more blot the good guys can take and given that we just finished off the only real major bad guy in this comic we need another one to hold the good guys off until she is ready to do evil shit again as such i vote bad guy instead of dead because of the position she is in to really fuck them up in the head and given the power set some of them have that is the only real way to mess with them with out the immediate down fall of the person responsible.
Is her hair moving? Is she some kind of Gorgon?
Everyone’s hair moves, everytime we change our head or body position. It is one of the banes of programming realistic hair for animation. None of the panels above strike me as showing an unnatural degree of hair movement. And Sydney has not reacted to spotting such.
Mind you, in her current state, she may not even notice if actual snakes were peering out underneath Dr. Frost’s hair.
I’m sure someone probably noticed this already Dave but Sydney’s glasses disappear in panels 4 and 6.
They’re on her head
Unless done offscreen I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop when she realizes her family and friends not in the military realize she’s back.
@ the vote incentive The other guy: $2.99 a pound at your local grocery store chains because That level of tenderizing deserves to be cooked.
Time to cut away to something else, Perhaps Maxima informing the General of Sydneys killing of Squidwards
Unless Dave has been inspired for something amusing. Or if he wishes to reveal some depths of Sydney’s character, which may not otherwise be easy to show in a natural way. We all build emotional walls around ourselves and it can take different approaches, for different people, to get them to open up. Shrinks are professionally trained to achieve this.
So even if Dave is not confident of being able to accurately convey the professional aspects of this, he may still wish to bring out some of Sydney’s motivations, fears and other inner character.
Well, as a licensed physician (albeit in the psychiatric field, it still counts), Dr. Frost already deals with Classified-Confidential information anyway. It’s a part of the job to keep doctor-patient relationships private.
One must also consider that working with Archon (ie-military) personnel would require she’s had a background check & some level of security clearance anyway. As far as her official clearance goes, it has more to do with the physical & electronic securty measures over her files & other documents that would need her compliance.
Besides the actual level of her security clearance, the military also has the “Need to Know” criteria in place, which may actually grant her access to specific information that she must have in order to do her job properly.
Have to remember, we are talking about Sydney here, she would ask that same question about clearance and potential security risk to a four-star fucking General!!
And Sydney hasn’t even finished Basic Training yet (technically, she’s barely even started), she isn’t even cleared to carry a loaded fire-arm yet!!
… and she has an orb that can probably carve her initials in the moon.
I am as tired as Sydney looks above.
Mind you this is the same comment I made on the previous comic, which got lost in the ether.
Panel 4 really reminds me of me when I’m sleepy. It can be incredibly frustrating knowing that you know the word you are after but being unable to articulate it
Personally don’t have the luxury of only having that problem when tired: try having a conversation with someone and forgetting the word ‘house’, or ‘tree’, or ‘hippopotamoose’
One reason I prefer text, especially for an intelligent conversation. Trying to talk to a co worker later in a shift, tired and they bring up something you know a lot about but suddenly you forget a basic word and stumble over that…really hurts your credibility in that moment to forget things like (dissuade), or (speculate) and such.
At least with me, don’t end up ‘umming’ and ‘erring’ or saying ‘thingamie’, it’s just… a stop and have to refrain from ‘wriggling’ fingers trying to remember the word (not sure if that is better or worse than ‘umming’ and ‘erring’)
Guesticus, and others I guess, Forgetting words can also be caused by certain medications such as Topamax, used to treat seizures I think , but I do know for a fact it can cause a person to be unable to remember even common words like Door, or Spoon
Don’t take any medication (unless the medication is making me forget even taking the medication…)
Had eight strokes over a sixteen year period, only diagnosis was for the first one (Severe Neurological Migraine, because wasn’t allergic to tomatoes), stopped counting after the eighth: no medication (wouldn’t even take aspirin or Panadol)
Had a rare form of cancer in 2012 (only one in 30 million have had it), had surgery to remove it, no chemo or medication
One of the characters on “The Blacklist” show had a form of memory loss, can’t remember the name and can’t be bothered looking it up right now, butt her problem was after suffering brain damage from being drowned for a few minutes, and, according to self-professed medical experts on another webic, that’s not possible for me to have it
I wonder if Dr.Frost is an agent of the Twilight Council!?
Don’t know if it’s been pointed out but, her eye’s haven’t moved or blinked and her facial expression is the same other than a small animation of her mouth. Don’t know if he’s playing off the Mask bit or if that’s her natural resting face.
weeelll, in panel 7 she DID raise her right Eyebrow… :D
I did a partial archive dive looking for an instance of eyes blinking. There may have been one, but I didn’t find it. Unless you display animated GIFs instead of PNG or JPG artwork, there’s no simple way to indicate a blink, other than a “-blink, blink” sound effect type thing off to the side of the head.
No, she didn’t squint or widen her eyes so far. No big deal, yet.
Yeah, was going to say something similar: very difficult to portray things like that in a ‘static’ medium like this, it’s also why characters keep getting caught ‘talking with their mouths shut’
Yea, that was creeping me out as well. She looks like an animated, life size Barbie doll, so I am withholding my opinion until I see more.
She’s been in a grand total of four panels, she is also a professional shrink, what sort of facial movements are you expecting to see? Sticking her tongue out and crossing her eyes? o_O
I think the fact sidney is animated in every panel makes the doc drawing too obviously static.
Nah, she definitely just a swarm of superintelligent hamsters wearing a paper plate with face drawn on it as a disguise – nothing out of ordinary, in short.
That’s the Veil malfunctioning gives the unnatural vibes of porcelain princess, under its usual functionality you wouldn’t even notice few subtle clues.
Patreon tier question: do those tiers have to be every month, or can you move around from month to month to show your support but not be able to afford the higher tiers every single month?
Support at whatever level you can. People who can pitch in at the high level every so often still get in the cameo queue, but it can take a while to work them into the story.
Thank you.
Unfortunately, I cannot afford to do that.
If she’s human, my money’s on her being a super, with perfect looks and odd hair like that. If she isn’t human, maybe she belongs to one of the may types of people on the Council? I don’t think we’ve EVER seen someone who showed so little emotion in the entire series.
They haven’t shown a professional shrink at work in the entire series.
The psychological and psychiatric professions have a raft of competing methodologies and schools of thought. The deadpan adviser schtick is one of those.
I have a sneaking admiration for Dr. Sydney Freedman– fictional or not, Alan Arbus (the actor) was mistaken for a doctor on multiple occasions.
A lot of people thought M*A*S*H was a documentary…
Well, the scrounging Radar O’Reilly did to get stuff really did happen before military supply was computerized in the mid eighties.
Radar didn’t do the scrounging for supplies, butt the scrounging has been happening for the entire history of military campaigns, and it’s still happening, just need to be more clever and sneaky about it
In ‘street magician’ voice:
“And now, with a simple application of a̶ ̶r̶u̶b̶b̶e̶r̶ ̶s̶t̶u̶m̶p̶ database tagging, watch me transform this crate of $40 hammers into a crate of green peas!”
With everyone giving their theories on Dr. Frost, I’m surprised no one suggested that, while she might be a super, she might be a super with telepathic powers (or possibly able to make telepathic shields over areas, since it was alluded to just a few strips ago that Archon has that ability.
*whoosh overhead*
It was? I missed that.
Yeah, while Sydney and Maxima were in the sky and Sydney was telling Maxima about her teleportation ability, it was heavily implied that Archon has anti-telepathy measures in place (telepathic firewalls of some sort), but she wouldnt tell Sydney specificially because it’s too high above her pay grade :).
Here’s the strip.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-742-rank-knowing-stuff/
It could be just much more mundane measures, if we ignore Sydney’s speculation. Hence why that scene did not spring to mind. Although, in a super hero setting the super option will still get good odds with the bookies. Thanks for linking the scene.
I honestly cannot think of a ‘mundane’ method of anti-telepathy.
You are failing to ignore Sydney’s speculation. To the contrary, you are fixating on it. Maxima indicated that they have contingencies against Maxima herself turning evil. There was no mention of telepathy. Those chokers the heroines use could be packed with (explosive, anti-maxima Kryptonite, sleeping gas etc to provide a direct response to such an incident occurring.
Additionally the current functions of the chokers (/torcs/pipboy) provide the real time monitoring of what the heroes are doing. This is being reviewed by security personnel at Archon. So if the ‘turning evil’ has any observable effect, Archon will immediately be aware of it. And mundane contingencies could be enacted, such as scrambling Arc-SWAT, or one of the government protection squads (such as in the Super Secret Service) to take her out.
Which may or may not also include individuals with anti-telepathy capability. But there are plenty of scenarios where Maxima may ‘turn evil’ or otherwise go rogue, which have nothing to do with telepathy. One of which could just be that her morals compel her to turn against an unlawful order or immoral executive action. Another might be one of Max’s relatives being kidnapped (such as her brother) and Max being blackmailed into helping the kidnappers, to avoid him (or whoever) being executed.
Check the page I linked. Maxima specifically DID mention Archon (not just Maxima) has some sort of defense against telepathy, but would not say what it was.
Check the page I linked. Maxima specifically DID mention Archon (not just Maxima) has some sort of defense against telepathy, but would not say what it was.
“Archon does have some very smart people working for it, we have safeguards”
Then Sydney speculates.
“It is classified”
Maxima made absolutely no mention of telepathy defences. Her second comment is not a confirmation that Sydney’s speculation is correct. She does not say, “Yes, but it is classified”. Without the confirmation it is a neutral “No comment” response, especially backed up by the (poetically phrased version of) “it is above your paygrade”.
Plus bear in mind that Maxima was responding to Sydney’s primary concern, namely “what would happen if Maxima went evil”, not “has Archon got defenses against telepathy”. So the entirety of Maxima’s replies can be summarised as “Archon has safeguards against me turning evil. The details of which are classified”.
And likely Maxima herself is not aware of the specifics. General Faulk will have assigned someone to do contingency planning, then allocated whatever resources and personnel would be necessary to contain Dark Maxima. Perhaps even keeping himself out of knowing all the plan, so that even if Maxima tried to beat the information out of him, he could not tell her what countermeasures she faced.
Part of the reason why Maxima was so emotional in her response, to Sydney, is that the information is above her paygrade too!
To be fair, if you can think of a workable ‘mundane’ method of telepathy you’re probably most of the way to countering it.
Fairly sure that was just a Maxi-specific measure (her golden-skin helps block outside thoughts), because Sydney was worried about telling Maxi in case someone attempted to get inside her head
No, look at the last 4 panels. Maxi is talking about some sort of psionic firewall in place for Archon in general, not just for Maxima. :)
That heavily implies they have either someone or some sort of super-tech that can counter telepathic incursion. Unfortunately, it’s classified and above Sydney’s pay grade (and since Sydney is the main protagonist, we probably won’t know about it until she does) :)
Might I ask a silly question? have you ever considers diving this up a bit and releasing this on Amazon for Kindle? You don’t have to charge if you’d have issues with that, just so that it was downloadable. 750 pages can be a lot to page through and not all of us have internet all the time..
I have, but I’ve never put together a finished PDF or anything. I’d like to though.
on the other hand, Doctor Psychiatrist sounds like an awesome super villain name
The Leader of the Awesomes was Professor Doctor Awesome.
I keep thinking that Dr.Frost had some very wild action a year before (assuming she didn’t just half dyed her hair)…
Also, it could be just me but Is she TRYING to NOT show her upper teeth? (Is she a vampire?)
Well she ISN’T being reflected in Sydney’s glasses!
Neither is anything else in the room, really. Pretty generic reflections, if you ask me.
Shhh! How are we to get a conspiracy theory going if you debunk it so easily!
The flat Earth aliens obviously used one of those MIB flashy things to make the glasses seem normal. Y’all have been flashied into thinking those are generic reflections!
Her necklace is also suspicious.
…come to think of it, how did she manage go 53 days without speed?
She didn’t.
She was only gone three days her time.
Even the shrink is gorgeous.
Maybe Doctor Frost is also a super? I’m thinking Emma Frost, a telepath… which would be extremely helpful as a psychologist or psychiatrist.
Dr. Emma Frost?
That’s a hot psychiatrist! Of course now the speculation will be “is she a super?” since most doctors don’t come with the super perfect looks package. Well, not unless they turned to counseling after a successful run as a supermodel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZQAh3Jg4ss
Wow Sydney MUST not be feeling okay not a single crack about Dr Frost. She didn’t even ask if the psych’s name was Emma.
A computer can do the work that a shrink does: all you really have to write is whatever is necessary to keep Halo talking. Now, when the shrink communicates to the higher ups…
Well, my bad feelings about this counsellor from the previous page are even worse now. Dr. Frost is way too formal and has almost no warmth. Warmth is not something a counsellor should be lacking.