Nadia closed her eyes and I regretted the pain that shot across het lace. "If there were employees they could not trust, they had me crack their minds the way Valerie cracks computer files. Most often, all I did was sort through some minor guilty secrets, but when I came up against someone who had the ability, conscious or otherwise, to resist simple telepathic magics, I had to turn the power level up. Most of the time it did no permanent damage, but in some cases, it would have been kinder to take the person out and shoot him."