[ There are six floors and then the roof to rise to. The ride could be shorter, but it could be longer, too. Anakin can't help but notice the way Alec reacted to the demonstration, so resolves to just use general physics from here on out. ]

Well, you introverts like your time away from people, right? With empathic abilities, there isn't anywhere in this city you can go where you are away from people. Not in your home because you can feel everyone in the building around you, on the street walking by, passing in cars. In the middle of Central Park there's some peace, but even then, at least one other person is always close enough that you know they are there.

And besides, people deserve privacy in their own heads. I don't want to know what people feel or think if they aren't voluntarily expressing it.