The Princess Who Had a Headache

If you can see other people’s feelings, you’ll be called perceptive. If you feel other people’s feelings, you’ll be called sensitive. But what if someone else’s pain echoes in you as if it were your own? And what if there’s too much pain? If the very earth aches—soaked with blood, despair, and ash from burning fires? Then, with your co-feeling, you only get in everyone’s way. Pain can be turned off—along with other feelings. Pain can be dulled. And with pain, you can even come to an agreement. But first of all, everything must be understood.