:Your Gift is powerful enough to translate strangers' brains for you.  And you can find places you're looking for, somehow, without checking every part of the tapestry that you can see.  I'd imagine it - ought to contain something like a search function - but what we're searching for is - there's an obvious metaphor in my thoughts, but I don't know how to explain -:

Thellim wordlessly requests steering for the perceptual side of Melody's gift, and asks it to - metaphorically speaking, it's okay for the Gift to interpret this as a metaphor rather than literally - distinguish for their attention those portions of tapestry constituting ((minimal-sets-of functions that mutually recurse) AND (have execution pathways potentially including (the giant void at the center of Vanyel's mind)).

:Your Gift is powerful enough to translate strangers' brains for you.  And you can find places you're looking for, somehow, without checking every part of the tapestry that you can see.  I'd imagine it - ought to contain something like a search function - but what we're searching for is - there's an obvious metaphor in my thoughts, but I don't know how to explain -:

Thellim wordlessly requests steering for the perceptual side of Melody's gift, and asks it to - metaphorically speaking, it's okay for the Gift to interpret this as a metaphor rather than literally - distinguish for their attention those portions of tapestry constituting (minimal-sets-of functions that (mutually recurse AND (have execution pathways going through the giant void at the center of Vanyel's mind))).