One was that she could use her globe to watch survivors in other parts of the world. She had spent a lot of hours doing so after the Plague was finished, and she showed Charlinder examples of a few of the people whose lives she'd watched decades before, when they were still alive. She had eventually given up this habit, realizing there was nothing to be gained from spying on people whose lives she had wrecked. She did, however, show a snapshot from this old habit to Charlinder, though what she'd expected him to gain from it was not immediately apparent. Perhaps that was merely the way she’d chosen to demonstrate the globe’s powers, because she also offered to show him how Paleola was doing at the present time. "I could show you your village, if you like," she offered. "Would you like to see them?" "Could I talk to them? Would they be able to hear me?" "Well, no," she answered. "You could see them, but they wouldn’t have any sense of you." "Isn’t this the way that you told the survivors it was safe to come outside?" "Yes, but, even with my powers, they didn’t really hear words so much as get a vague impression.
