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* [[Mugging the Monster]]: In ''Lion Game'' two street thugs stalk Telzey...very briefly. Fortunately for them it suits her purposes to let them live and even to provide them with a telepathic illusion that they've successfully mugged her, but it still qualifies as this trope because she could literally have killed them both with a harsh look.
* [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]]: Telzey is rather prone to this.
** Justified in-setting: at the beginning of the second short story there is an expository segment explaining the difference between 'Class One' and 'Class Two' psionics. Class Ones are defined by having specific abilities that come in standardized sets, and that's all they get. Class Twos are defined by having the ability to potentially train and develop almost any psionic talent with the only differences between individual psis being what they have a greater aptitude to learn or self-develop easily and what they'll never discover on their own and need specialized instruction to grasp. Telzey is an advanced Class Two, so 'developing or learning new psi powers whenever she has a compelling need to' is ''intended'' to be her entire shtick.
* [[Precursors]]: Their remnants feature in several of the Trigger Argee stories.
** One of the few surviving Old Galactics also becomes Trigger's enigmatic mentor, and later on moves himself and all his surviving friends that he can reach into Professor Mantelish's tropical garden (unknown to Professor Mantelish). At story's end they're still there happily planning on the slow (verrrrrrry slow) rebuilding of their species, while lending a little discreet aid to their human friends from time to time in return for their providing shelter.
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