Editing Eavesdropper's Earring (section)

== Abilities ==
Lucy can reach out her perceptions through the earring to hear words spoken with an intent of them being hidden, which feels a little like using her Sight, but somehow both subtler and more obvious.<ref>She straightened, moving her head around to feel the simultaneous weight and lack thereof on her ear.  Reaching into and through it felt like using her Sight, but another appendage.  Subtler and more obvious to the outside observer at the same time. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/21 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.8]]</ref>Can be used to hear through doors and walls but is most effective at hearing whispers and more specifically at hearing whispers about herself,<ref>“Communicate what you’re doing.  I can hear you,” Lucy said.  “It’s clearer if you whisper.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/08 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.3]]</ref> but she can put [[power]] into it to help her hear specific conversations.<ref>''“Draw on my power, let me hear,”'' Lucy whispered. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/05 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.2]]</ref>

Any diagrams Lucy draws are automatically elaborated with complicated flourishes, making simple diagrams impossible but some more complex ones easier.<ref>It couldn’t be easy.  Lucy tried once more to draw the circle.<br><br>It was like the chalk wasn’t a chalk ''line'', but a pile of chalk dust, and the wind kept blowing at it.  Or she was trying to draw in iron filings and there were magnets under the ground, in elaborate shapes and arrangements.<br><br>The earring had its drawbacks, apparently.  Lucy stood, hands on hips, and looked down at the chalk, which had pulled away into spikes, curves, and star-like shapes.<br><br>“What’s this?” Verona asked.  She stepped out the back door, hair messy, and rested her chin on the railing of the back steps of the little workshop.  The wood was damp from the past few days of rain.<br><br>“I don’t think I can draw plain circles anymore,” Lucy said.  “Or it’s harder.”<br><br>[...]<br><br>“This is a good excuse to tune your practice to be more you.”<br><br>[...]<br><br>“Maybe,” Lucy said.  “That feels too art-y.  Like, if I’m going to re-learn some diagrams and customize them…”<br><br>“I guess to do a barrier, you want something radiating or shining out, right?  So it’d be more like a star or a sun than a circle.”<br><br>“Sun, yeah.”<br><br>[...]<br><br>Lucy bent down, then, opening her laptop on the edge of the porch to check spelling and address, wrote it down in chalk.  That, at least, didn’t fight her.  If anything it was a bit easier to get the chalk to do as she wanted as it wore down. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/05 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.2]]</ref> She learned to adapt to this.{{cite}}

In just plain speaking it could let Lucy hear more in someone's voice revealing emotions or qualities about them.<ref>“The notion of the ‘child’ was only trending out of favor in that era,” the Carcass in Sable said, voice soft, with a faint ragged edge to it that Lucy’s earring could pick up.  “She was old enough to awaken, if we grant her words the gravity required for her to practice, we must grant them the gravity to condemn her.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/08/07 Excerpt] from [[Summer Break 13.2]]</ref><!--

“Yeah.  You catch that?”

“My earring doesn’t work so well across the phone, I guess.”
[...]
A protection sign.  Something intended to meet aggression in a radiant way.  She mimed the spokes of her earring for the ‘radiant’ part, and encircled herself with a ring.  She marked out a distance… five feet seemed reasonable.  A line with the measurement marked out helped there.


[...]

Lucy heard the running footsteps with her earring.  Not Emmett’s, by direction-

“Forward!”
[...]

Lucy ducked behind the car as the gunshot went off.  Still freakishly loud.  The bullet grazed the car, taking a chunk out of the spoiler, and set off the car alarm.  Lucy pressed a hand to the ear without the earring.
 - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/09/11 Excerpt] from [[Summer Break 13.11]]</ref>
--><ref>Implement: Wears the Eavesdropper’s Earring. An adornment implement that enhances her ability to hear whispers, boost sensory, personal and display-type practices.<br>[Picture of implement]<br>Made from Verona’s Awakening scissors & Ave’s memories. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/05 15.2 Spoilers], [[Keeping Tabs, Kennet]]</ref>