I'm not the kind of optimist Carly apparently is, all right.
[They've already lost people-- he's not sure what that means for them, in the end.
... and he's quiet, for a few moments, when she prompts him-- but she's not wrong. He's seen hers, and it feels a little like she has a better chance of getting it than most here.]
My ability's not mine. I'm an experiment in creating artificial gifted-- I just didn't have the full picture, in what you saw. The first time it was fully unleashed, the rumor was that some kind of god's wrath did it; I knew it was my doing, but not anything about myself.
[It was all he had to go on, and what kind of kid destroys part of a city and assumes they're still human with those kinds of whispers going around?]
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[They've already lost people-- he's not sure what that means for them, in the end.
... and he's quiet, for a few moments, when she prompts him-- but she's not wrong. He's seen hers, and it feels a little like she has a better chance of getting it than most here.]
My ability's not mine. I'm an experiment in creating artificial gifted-- I just didn't have the full picture, in what you saw. The first time it was fully unleashed, the rumor was that some kind of god's wrath did it; I knew it was my doing, but not anything about myself.
[It was all he had to go on, and what kind of kid destroys part of a city and assumes they're still human with those kinds of whispers going around?]