Editing Second Sight (section)

==Known Examples==

*[[Blake Thorburn]] - a world painted in rough strokes, with exaggerated contrast and saturation,<ref name=":11">I did.  I searched for the connection, but I couldn’t make out much. 
The world was buried under a haze, and the wind was blowing in too many
directions at once.<br>
“Trace your eyes along the paths that things run in parallel, the 
straightest lines.  Good place to start, and good places to avoid if you
think someone’s searching for you.”<br>
I looked harder.  The saturation and contrast seemed exaggerated, the world painted in a impasto style with coarse brush strokes, animated 
with life and constant motion.  I followed the areas where the strokes 
and lines met, so I could see the flow of it, not stopping at a dead end
but naturally sweeping my eyes along the straighter paths where the 
particles danced.<br>
[...]<br>
My eye traveled over the splash of minor spirits that danced around 
it, seeking out the areas where they were traveling in the straightest 
lines.<br>
One, blocked by the house.  I eyeballed it, figured out the 
direction, found it on the other side of the house, faint, disappearing 
into the woods and glades.<br>
<em>The Briar Girl</em>, I thought. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/damages-2-4/ excerpt] from [[Damages 2.4]]  </ref> drifting "dust mote" spirits everywhere reacting to Practice,<ref name="1.7e1">I closed my eyes, exhaling, and then opened them.<br>
But for the chalk lines and bowls in strange places, the room was normal.<br>
I reversed the process.  Eyes closed, inhaling, eyes open.<br>
Again, there were the hints of life.  I could see something faint, like dust motes, spraying lightly where the room ended and the hallway began.  As though the space warping effect was creating a kind of friction between spaces.<br>
When I focused on the motes, they stood out in my vision, and I could see more of them in the room.<br>
I cupped my hand to catch one.<br>
It turned, doing a small somersault before darting between the fingers that tried to close around it.<br>
I did what I’d done before, but I didn’t close my eyes.<br>
The effect faded.<br>
I turned it on again, but without doing anything with my breath or eyes.<br>
Natural. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/01/11/bonds-1-7/ excerpt] from [[Bonds 1.7]]</ref><ref name="2.1e1" /><ref name=":8">We went on our way.  I hadn’t turned off my second sight, and I saw how the spirits were shifting.  People were milling around the area, which was more like an extended strip mall than a true downtown, but the spirits diverted them from taking one side street.  - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/category/story/arc-2-damages/2-01/ excerpt] from [[Damages 2.1]] </ref><ref name=":9">I felt like a weight had been lifted from me, now that I was clear of the room.  Every step away from the circle had diminished the volume of the ticking as if I’d taken ten.  Being in the living room, I could barely feel it.  With the second sight, I could make out the movements of the spirits, as if they were caught up in a current, fighting a headwind. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/category/story/arc-3-breach/3-04/ excerpt] from [[Breach 3.4]]</ref> connections visible as streams of moving spirits<ref name=":7">I switched to my other sight.  “June Burlison.”<br>
I could see the connection.  Frail, spirits reacting between me and 
the book, me and Rose, and between me and something out there in the 
woods.  Too general, indirect and fleeting to point the way to anything.<br>
“June Burlison,” Rose said.  I could see the same connections 
forming.  The connection passed to me, then out to the woods, like the 
aftermath of lighting that darted between conductive targets.<br>
Would this same strategy work for finding people?  Objects?  If I 
wanted to find Laird, could I call out his name until I could make out 
the connection? - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/category/story/arc-2-damages/2-03/ excerpt] from [[Damages 2.3]]
</ref><ref name=":11" />
*[[Nick]] - more of a physical feeling than anything visual<ref name=":4" />
*[[Verona Hayward]] - a world covered in transparent plastic-like sheets, spirits as skinless creatures moving beneath them, cobwebs representing connections.{{Cite}} Enhanced low-light vision.<ref>“I’m fine,” Verona said.  “I can kinda see in the dark if I use my Sight.”<br>
[...]<br>
She remembered why she’d used the sight, and tried to analyze the 
world around her.  Movement and motion provoked shedding of bits of 
grass, bark, or paint, to the point she could tell that there were 
things out there, but… she couldn’t see in the dark.<br>
“I can’t,” she said.<br>
“Me either,” Lucy said. <br>
“You could train your eyes to See that way,” Edith said.  “For now, I
would guess your Sight is exaggerating your natural abilities, 
preferences, and your way of looking at the world.”<br>
“You’d guess?” Lucy asked.  “You don’t know?”<br>
“No,” Edith said.<br>
- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/16/lost-for-words-1-3/ excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.3]]
</ref><ref>They descended past the tops of the trees, into the recesses of thick forest.  It was dark, to a surprising degree.  Verona had first experienced this when going to save Avery from the Forest Ribbon Trail.  She kept her Sight on, but it didn’t help much.  She tended to see better when there was at least a ''little'' light, and there wasn’t much. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/06 Excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.2]]</ref>
*[[Avery Kelly]] - photographic film representing connections,<ref>Edith turned her head to look off into the trees.  Avery, her Sight 
still active, could see the band that wound through the trees and along a
path, extending to the distant campsite that Edith was looking at. [...] The idea of this particular bit of chalk-drawing, like the one on Lucy’s
hat and Verona’s hat, was not to work on spirits, but to work on the 
bands she could see with the Sight.  Every relationship between a person
and a person, place, or thing had a band or a ‘connection’. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/16/lost-for-words-1-3/ excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.3]]</ref><ref>Avery turned that same Sight out toward the campus.  The ‘bands’ of 
film-negative cutouts that represented connections were stretched tight,
to the point of being strained, and many others were lying limp on the 
ground, especially here, between the parking lot and the school, and at 
the front of the school itself.  She didn’t know if that meant they were
broken forever if it meant the slack would be picked up later, but it 
caught her eye. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/24/cutting-class-6-9/ excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.9]]</ref> shadows and mist everywhere obscuring unimportant details, handprints and footprints everywhere showing emotional impacts,<ref>The areas they moved through were all residential, all small towns, all compressed down to their most populated, emotionally active areas.  Places where her handprint-Sight would have been densest, were she to look at them.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/22/leaving-a-mark-4-10/ excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.10]]</ref> areas without prints damaged.<ref>She did as Miss had instructed earlier in the evening, and opened her
eyes to the Sight.  She could see the flare of Edith’s eyes, and the 
world partially dissolved.  On trees, on cars, there were a multitude of
handprints and footprints.  Bands extended like clotheslines or 
spider’s webs across everything, including a band from the truck to the 
office, another band to the truck, and another band that extended down 
into the woods, wrapping around trees on the way there.<br>
Where there weren’t handprints and footprints, things were damaged.  
Bark was peeled and broken, grass black to the point it looked like 
there was nothing there, and sections of wall around the camp buildings 
were splintered and shedding paint.<br>
The bands were the interesting thing.  They were almost like old film
negatives, partially transparent, silhouettes standing up and looking 
around.  Almost like paper with sections cut out.  Almost like something
quilted, layers stitched on.  A middle-ground between all three.  Where
there was too much negative, too much cut-out, or too little material, 
the bands looked like they could snap.  She felt like she could look at 
those scenes that formed the band and analyze them, but she couldn’t get
close enough.  When she moved, they moved.  If she walked towards one, 
it rose higher until it was well above her head. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/16/lost-for-words-1-3/ excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.3]]
</ref> Movement is highlighted.<ref>Avery used her Sight.  It made it easier to see moving things, and to see the threads that tied one thing to another.  - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/16/lost-for-words-1-3/ excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.3]]</ref> Farsighted, things close-up are blurred.<ref>Avery’s eyes opened wider, her pupils narrowed, and the ‘real’ world 
peeled away.  The floor was shrouded in the faintest of mists, the 
unimportant details flaked away like peeling paint in a high wind, and 
it was just her, the people on the field, a court of handprints and 
footprints, and a mess of the bands all around her, strung between 
players and between herself and the others.  The ones from herself were 
harder to see.<br>
[...]<br>
One third of her left eye was stuck on the Sight, like a blurriness 
that wouldn’t go away, but it was a different picture, darker, mistier, 
with handprints, some bloody.<br>
[...]<br>
Her Sight was more farsighted than not, which was a pain, because she <em>really</em> would have liked to see and study the band that stretched between her and Pamela.<br>
- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/30/lost-for-words-1-7/ excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.7]]</ref>
*[[Lucy Ellingson]] - a watercolour world, blades piercing things (as well as darker stains/paint) represent harm and danger. Ribbons, banners, and strips of cloth blowing in the wind represent connections. Farsighted, things close-up are blurred.<ref>Like the raising of an eyelid, she lifted up a veil that was entirely of her will.<br>
The world was painted by watercolour, favouring dark blues and grays 
for the snow, dark greens and black for the trees.  More startling was 
the <em>red</em>.  Like bloodstains, the red was everywhere, sinking 
into snow, into trees, and even dirt, though it was hard to make out.  
As if to facilitate that bleeding or bloodstaining, blades, swords, and 
shafts of wood impaled everything.  Ribbons, sashes, and tatters of 
cloth were tied to handles, blades, and shafts, and each blew intently 
in a different direction.<br>
Even people had sashes, but it was hard to tell the origin points.  
When she got closer she found things got blurrier, harder to make out, 
as if it was the opposite of the way things worked in reality. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/12/lost-for-words-1-2/ excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.2]]
</ref> Stains are visible even in darkness or smoke.<ref>With the Sight on, she could see the drama, the watercolor stain 
spreading out into the air and sometimes turning fluorescent, glowing 
brightly or reflecting the flames.  The darkness was deeper, and faces 
white.  She could see the blades impaling people.<br>
Two guys and three girls were sitting on the side of the hill, barely
 any illumination around them, and the stain that spread around them was
 colorful, taking on vague shapes like faces.  The blades that had been 
digging into them before were now pulling away, drifting like they were 
underwater and swords could float.  They looked up at the night sky, and
 because they were on the hillside that wasn’t directly facing Kennet, 
there wasn’t a lot of light pollution to block off the view of the 
stars.  Even the milky way was visible high above.  Lucy had to turn off
 her Sight to see it, before she turned it back on.<br>
[...]<br>
Lucy’s eyes stung with the smoke from the cabin.  She used the Sight, 
and saw silhouettes like black stains against the smoke, throwing water 
on the couch that was over the couch. <br>
[...]<br>
Her Sight helped identify stains where the tree branches could scratch and the especially brambly bushes and weeds were.<br>
[...]<br>
To Lucy’s sight, the black cat mask was white, the white rim around the 
eye sockets like smudged blood.  The stain at Melissa’s foot was black 
in a way that made the gloom around it seem pale, threads reaching up 
and into her body, where the threads of stain transfixed her heart, the 
slashes that extended out like blades unto themselves.<br>
[...]<br>
As the light faded, she used her Sight to scan the surroundings, judging the slopes-<br>
And saw Guilherme, stained a deep green-blue, approaching from the 
shadows.  He was in his boy form, shirtless, his only real clothing like
 a kilt worn over leather pants, and he had a weapon.  A long spear.<br>
- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/25/leaving-a-mark-4-3/ excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.3]]</ref>
*[[Nicolette Belanger]] - multiple modes changed by tapping glasses, including seeing people as figures of light with splashes of colour around them, dolls supported by chains, and seeing everything in terms of flows of electricity and blood.<ref name="2.ze2" />
*[[Lawrence Bristow]] - a world of diagrams and symbols, people as human-shaped dossiers of info framed by diagrams, with notations on their head and throat describing their status in his collection.<ref>[https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/10/7-3-spoilers-borrowed-eyes-comic/ Bonus Material: Borrowed Eyes Comic]</ref>
*[[Brie Callie]] - the [[Hungry Choir]]'s world.<ref name=":12" />
*[[Zed]] - a dark world of neon laser-like lines.<ref name=":12" /> Sees inside objects, showing how they're put together, the wires in walls, etc.<ref name=":13">He used his Sight to scan the area.  The world drawn out in neon lasers with soft curves, all of them pulsing with intensity that raced from one end of each laser to the other.  He’d trained his Sight to see into things, so he could decipher how certain things were put together, and find wires inside walls. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/15/out-on-a-limb-3-z/ excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.z]]</ref>
*[[Jessica Casabien]] - not very dramatic, as she relies on clear vision.<ref name=":12" />
*[[List of BHI Students#Liberty Tedd|Liberty Tedd]] - the ability to see damage and weak points.<ref>Her sight glowed beneath the visor of the hot metal helmet she wore, and she could see that damage, the weak points, the stronger material, like television static running through everything, sometimes thin, sometimes dense, sometimes a disrupted, easy flow. [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/01/26/vanishing-points-8-a/ Except] from Vanishing point 8.a</ref>
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