Flashback ( PDFDrive )

wonder you got so freaked out when we took you to Atlantis to have Quinlin
try a probe on you.
It’s a super weird word! she argued.
With you on that one, Foster, Keefe told her. But I’m up for a Fitzphie
probe-athon. Commence all the probing!
We have to stop calling it that, Sophie noted.
Probably, Fitz agreed. But don’t you think it might work?
I don’t know I don’t know how to probe.
“You don’t know how to probe?” he said out loud, turning to where
Tiergan stood watching them. “You never taught her?”
“Why would I?” Tiergan asked. “Her mind uses a better method
instinctively.”
“Okay, will someone please tell me what ‘probing’ is?” Sophie
begged.
“It’s a way of pushing through someone’s mental blocking,”
Tiergan told her.
“Then why do you think that will help us find Keefe’s missing
memories?” Sophie asked Fitz.
“Because when you probe, you transmit different words until you
get a reaction, and then you keep transmitting that same word over
and over until it breaks through.”
“I . . . still don’t understand how that helps with this. Keefe’s not
blocking us from the memories. They were erased.”
“No, they were washed,” Tiergan corrected. “And washing is mostly
about knocking memories loose and burying them out of reach—
usually under the person’s deepest fears, since they instinctively avoid
that section of their mind. So probing might be a useful solution—