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Rowan Cabin

"Thank you. It'll start with me switching you, but the stress test is the more important part. If you want to switch into "powered" mode, you're probably going to be in trouble. Besides, doing a stress test the first time puts some urgency to it that, without it, means you might never get it down because you can't focus or your brain is being lazy." Because let's face it, the brain does exactly as much work as it feels it can get away with. If it thought you grew gills and no longer needed your lungs, it'd shut them down just so it didn't have to concentrate on them.

But lazy brains aside, Julie steadies herself when she gets to this next part, "When I learned this from my brother, my aversion was pain. When I taught it to Eric, I tried embarrassing him. I learned some things from that, and where not to go, but I want your word that once we start this you're going to see it through to the end. I felt horrible putting Eric through what I did to get him to learn even though some good came out of it, and I'd feel worse if I did it to you and it was all for nothing."
Kate listens to what Julie has to say, thinking about it. It's not going to be nice, of course, and if she's going to do it she's going to have to stick with it.

Kate knows what she'll say, but she doesn't want to say it until she's sure of it. After a bit of thinking and deciding in her mind on a decision she knows she'll make (rationalization isn't always a bad thing), she nods and says, "I'll see it through to the end. No point starting something if you don't intend to finish it, and that's more true with this than most things. You don't get any kind of reward until the very end."