Sookie couldn't read him and it irritated her. If she were lesser of a person, she'd poke into his brain but perhaps it was fear that made her take a step away from that idea. Instead she just swallowed and rearranged her hands more comfortably as she tried to explain. "95% of the time, yes, I can turn it off and on and most of the time it's completely off. I don't want to know what people are thinking. The other 5%? I can't control it. If there's too many people thinking loud and I'm tired or angry or just don't care enough to stop myself. This island, those nightmares, I couldn't stop hearing them and seeing them because everyone was scared and loud and in pain. But I haven't heard anything since they finished. Not unintentionally anyway."