No problem, lol. I will try one more time to clarify: we know they sense things somehow. Going with only the standard senses, we’ve got–hearing (e.g., hearing a rapid heartbeat or shallow breathing), smell (e.g., sweaty, aroused, afraid), taste (I’ll just leave this one alone because the thought of M licking me is just… I need to go be alone now…), touch (obvious, but let’s just say heated skin or goosebumps) , sight (again, obvious, like dilated pupils, a nervous tick, whatever).
What I’m saying is that those senses are more enhanced and powerful than ours, so if we can hear someone’s heart beating loudly, it’d be louder for them, and more intense. We also know, through Rebecca, that Mason’s sensory abilities are even greater than the others from UB.
So, say Adam ‘feels’ someone’s pulse when he touches them, and it reverberates through him, Mason would feel it even more. At some point, this could become sensory overload and be painful for him. It isn’t that he’s “feeling” the pain the other person is feeling, it’s that he’s sensing/experiencing the effects of that pain. The more intense the person’s pain, the stronger their reaction will be and the stronger he’ll sense that reaction. An easy analogy is this: someone gets a migraine and screams, it’s gonna hurt your ears, no matter what you are. For a vampire, especially one with super-senses, that scream will be deafening and even more painful.
I can totally see this, lol. I can also see M ignoring texts from the MC a week later when she asks when he’ll be back.
M, looking at his phone and rolling his eyes: Finally, texts back: nag!
M: keeps reading and sees MC said she misses him, and rolls his eyes at that too, then saves the text… and goes back and listens to the message she left him the first time she ever called to say she was going to the hospital…