Like sonar, a wave of energy had cascaded over the Slayer, searching, sensing... Feeling for strengths and weaknesses, alike, within the girl's aura. Such a thing was not only a shield, after all. It could be interfaced with, allowing for the detection of emotional states, physical health and more. Connections... Even a strong or growing bond with another living being, human or not, would leave its own imprint, as surely as footprints upon a sandy beach.

Fear, though, could be loud. A major reason for why the paranoid and sensitive often attracted haunting activities; disembodied entities being drawn to them, as surely as a lost ship to lighthouse. For an empathic being like Elfleda, auras were veritable goldmines of valuable information about a creature.

This one held concerns over... Yes.

"Sounds like something you've worries about," continued Beth. "Power is best held close... Lest it be taken from you, hmm? Or used against those who might think they've the right to do so."

A slight tingling was likely beginning to scratch at Valerie's mind now. Not of the same level the undead would signal, but Elfleda's limited use of inhuman abilities were were starting to trip natural alarm bells.

"Wouldn't that be something?" Smiled 'Beth'. "Never having to fear authority?"