"I don't know. I think there's enough to cuh-cover a lot of groups, and not just your sort of telepathy, or the juh-juh-Jedi. Lucy and her friends have their own s-s-sort of link, you nuh-know?" he said, pleased that he got through that with minimal stuttering and all his words.
The feeling of something holding his hand made him jump a little, but then Abra was actually holding his hand, and he couldn't help but smile at her. Of course, then he felt like an idiot. Abra had just told him he could use telepathy, so of course he should use it.
She didn't close her eyes. He shouldn't do that either, he decided; the old man would have torn strips off of him if he'd done something like that, handing all kinds of advantages to his enemy. So he just concentrated instead. (okay. zip-zips? is that what they're called?) he sent, hoping he wasn't too loud.