No, I think on 'top' of her mind would have been

a) classes
b) fiancee of the week
c) hee hee, isn't it fun what I'm doing to them!

I hardly think Liza is doing Magneto-class exposition on the top of her thoughts unless, of course, it's in a situation where she's watching things happen.

As I understand through reading the Psi Corps trilogy, anything more than a surface scan - listening to the ambient conversation, as it were - is noticable to the subject. (Please see 'Courtship of Princess Dessler' for a similiar indication of the nature of this.)

But still, really, I can't view Liza Broadbank's mind in the cafeteria being, "Ah, now that I have his notebook in my desk in the studen council office, I can do all sorts of things to him! Ha ha ha!"

More like, "What the HELL is the stuff, I can't beLIEve that my father sent me HERE just because of that Hutchins bitch, now I have to go study, then figure out what Chuck's going to give me next..."

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Geoff Depew - Mephron
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(They won't give me LARTs, they say that's restricted to Michael.)