[ It's a mixture of knowing him and having done not precisely this but similar things before. If you're going to do homebrewed psychiatry on someone in an attempt to get them back into fighting shape, generally you get the resident empath to do it.

Mostly, though, it's that she does know very well how he works by now, and she's almost always adjusting for it whether she actively even realizes it or not. Right now she definitely realizes what she's doing though, is making almost every movement terribly deliberately. She nods at the agreement, holds her hands palms up in plain view. ] Okay. I'm not going to do anything without telling you first, all right? Nothing happens without your permission. That's the rules.

[ She brushes against his mind for a moment, closes her eyes and then opens them again, a reminder that she's not going to leave him alone in any sense, that she'll be paying very careful attention. ] How we do a safe word is entirely up to you. [ The more choice left up to him, the better. He can't go into this feeling like she's made all the choices. ]