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[smallandschway]

[Seriously staring at a some papers.]

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[speedforcefreak]

Trying to set stuff on fire with your mind?

[smallandschway]

[Deadpan sarcasm;] Well, setting it'n water is just done so often.

[speedforcefreak]

Actually, hydrokinetics are damn sight rarer. No idea why.

[smallandschway]

S'odd. [The tiny genius gives a nod, briefly musing on the fact.] S'pecially since th' human body is 'least 60% water.

[speedforcefreak]

Maybe that's part of it. Maybe you gotta be extra powerful to be a hydrokinetic.

[He shrugs.] It's not like they've done much research into metagenetics in this century.

[smallandschway]

Yeah. They don' even get real big int' genetics 'till 'nother fifty years 'r so.

[speedforcefreak]

Oh! You're another future kid. Awesome!

[smallandschway]

Yeah, 'least from th' time most people 're from here.

[speedforcefreak]

I don't see many other future kids.

[smallandschway]

[Max gives a shrug.] I know there's some others here. An older version 'f me, for one. Seen others that look kinda like y', too.

[speedforcefreak]

Eh. [Bart makes a face] If he looks like me, he might not be me, and I've had enough of that 'raba to last two sprocking lifetimes, raz? [He considers for a moment, forging on before she can answer,] No, you wouldn't, never mind. Home universe troubles.

What're the papers for?

[smallandschway]

[The slang is different, but she can catch the gist of it. When Bart seems to have his own question answered, she goes on ahead with his last question.] S'a business offer. I made a shark robot t' help rescue n' protect th' animals an'a company wants t' buy him.

[speedforcefreak]

Oh. You better be careful with that. Business people like to steal sh-- things. But they use the law to do it, so they get away with it.

[smallandschway]

[Max rolls her eyes a bit. Sorry, Bart, but you're not free of the sarcasm stage yet!] People can be dregs. Who'd a'thought?