"Whenever I touch someone I get flashes of their past," she explained, "It tends to cause me to fall to the ground though, so it isn't something I do on purpose most of the time."
She had been working on gaining control of it for the year and a half she had actually been at the school and not in a coma. So far the most she had been able to do is actually stay with some of the images and allow them to play out a little. She had been using a potion that Alicia provided her when she wanted to hold hands or cuddle with Kristen, but there wasn't enough of that to just constantly use it. This meant that most of the time she was still bound by the rule of no skin to skin contact.
It wasn't hard to see the familiar look in Kerr's eyes. "Don't worry," she told her, "I don't do it on purpose unless I'm asked to, and really only two people have asked me to do it."