"Hear works, it is closest to what it feels like, though sometimes it isn't even close," she shakes her head and gives him a small smile, sort of amused.

"Usually it is like white noise. You know, like day to day conversations that happen in the background and the general noise you get in any large city. Except here, there is a weird uniformity... except it is more of an enforced disharmony. Like they'd all be thinking the same things at the same time if they same thing were happening to all of them but different things are happening, so they're not."

And she has /no/ idea if that make sense to Glitch at all but it is as good as it gets right now, "So, while, yes, I can sort of 'hear' everyone in a radius, I couldn't actively 'listen' to anywhere near that many without being overwhelmed. That's one of the biggest problems new telepaths have, is learning how to control that difference. And when everyone started humming or singing or thinking in songs or rhythms, it was a noticeable change in the not-a-pattern."