The young man is visibly startled. The person opposite him knocking ever so politely was not Zhane. It was....odd.It had been so long since he'd felt the touch of another mind that was not the Silver Ranger. After all, his team were very much Earth based humans. They never showed any empathic, telepathic or telekinetic abilities, no matter how long they seemed to practice.

The Ranger's instinct was to close everything down, shut the other man out and bury himself so deeply inside his own mind that no one could get in. But one thing Zhane's prolonged absence had taught him was that wasn't a good response. So, Andros took a deep breath, and opened his mind. A tiny, tiny, tiny bit.

Yes...it's been a while since I've talked to anyone else. Okay, sort of a lie. But close enough.