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It's odd when you get taken over by a spirit. Everything changes uncontrollably in ways that push you out of not only your mind, but your body too. Peal wasn't too used to spirit channeling yet; still only ever really practicing. But recently... Her cousin Mia started possessing Pearl in court more frequently to help out her protege, Mr. Nick. Pearl wanted to do it to be useful, but she hated it. Every time the spirit of Mia would come in, Pearl would feel herself stretch and warp into an unfamiliar shape.
She'd feel herself grow taller and her chest expand out so far it hurt her back and all this happening while her own mind got shoved out of this body that was turning into a form that wasn't her. But while she wasn't in control of her body and barely conscious, she also had to keep focused and keep the spirit from flying away like holding onto a balloon in a hurricane. And whenever she would return, everything would always be sore and she'd feel like an over-stretched rubber band and her head would hurt and she'd be so exhausted. Spirit channeling is hard enough on a full grown adult trained for years, but on a small girl as young as Pearl? It's incredible it hasn't killed her yet.
Even so, if someone wanted her to channel someone, Pearl would do it, because she liked to be useful. No matter how much it hurt as her body contorted into someone else's shape or how her brain would start to fizz like mints in cola. Peal would do it so she could be useful, like her mom always taught her to be.