[Need nods a little approvingly when Eda stops to consider, and just watches her for a bit. She... yes. Yes, she likes to watch people and be aware of what they're doing.]

I probably can. I'm breathing and I've got a pulse, so I might have a digestive system going. Hm. Actually, let me test something.

[She lets her breath out and doesn't inhale again. Need props her elbows on the table in front of her and crosses her heavy arms, laying one over the other. She does not remember how it feels for a living person to hold her breath but has a general impression that it gets unpleasant. Waiting. Waiting.

...can't talk like this. Or, she has Mind gifts and absolutely has the capacity to talk without air, but she's forgotten so much about using those gifts that she's just shielded herself almost to null. Otherwise it'll just be a painful cacophony of voices and imagery and she won't be able to talk then either. She breathes in - it does feel vaguely good, but does that mean she has to? - and laughs at herself.]

I think I've forgot how long humans can go without breathing. Don't I look senile.