insane or at least eccentric, rather than simply from a different world. Gwen was almost certain he didn't actually care and just thought the accent was cooler than his.
It was Beth that told the story, which sounded far different from her perspective, being a tale of how Gwen, using her magical powers, had located the missing children and then, out of bravery and honor, the men responsible committed suicide, so that the horror would end.
Billy looked at her and forced a smile that made the round scar on the right side of his face crinkle a little. He had a matching one on the left, like the red dots on a clown face, but it stayed about the same. "Good. So, we know that Gwen here is decent at using her precognitive abilities, what else did the testing say? No one told me the results yet."
It had been a while, but she hadn't asked, fearing that she just wasn't good enough at anything to bother training. Her brother hadn't been able to do much that way, and had to rely on the bit he'd gotten as a child, from their insane mother, who was trying to turn him into a super soldier as a test subject. No one mentioning it was probably because of something like that, Gwen had figured.
The Westmorland Detective seemed pleased by the change in subject matter however.
"Decently high in short term precognitive function, her strongest area is in teletransport. In this case that means that you can learn to move objects and use other physical effects. Short of using the Westmorland protocols, which you're too old for I think, we can't recommend trying to move through space itself, instantly, but levitation, pushing things with your intent, that sort of thing, should all be possible, if you practice enough. You also have some innate healing talent." There was a soft smile and a quick flipping up of the palms, which seemed to be that she didn't know what else to say, even as she kept speaking. "We've been looking for someone that can tutor you in the correct basics. We also need someone to go over how to resist mesmerism for you. I fear that not being able to do so is keeping you out of most of the work you should be doing right now."
That was something that had been mentioned before, but no one had seemed to care to pursue it, so she'd figured that no one really wanted her involved in anything important overly. That kind of made sense, being that she was from another world and all that. Who'd want someone like that being in on all their secret plans to stop the world from being destroyed? What if she was actually in on it somehow? Or, maybe they just thought she was a monster? That or just a stranger, which to most people was nearly as scary as the things that went bump in the night.
Fear of the other was a real enough thing after all.
She grinned, which took some work, given how down she was feeling at the moment.
"Right, I need to get on that now, don't I? Since I don't really have anything else to do it seems like a plan. Do you think I can hire tutors from the University for it? Doctor Grainger might know some people." He was in radiatives, which was kind of how they built their magical technology, but he knew people there, being one of them, so maybe some of the kids would be willing to lend a hand? Everyone knew she was from another place now, so it didn't have to be hidden that she just had no clue what to do with her abilities. A lot of adults didn't bother really learning more than basic skills after all.
It was kind of like learning to play the violin, she guessed, from what she'd been told. Most people could do it, but very few ever bothered and even if they did, the vast majority never put in the time it would take to really be good at it. Katherine was powerful, but she hadn't really seemed to have practiced a lot, had she? Not if her strongest ability was Teletransport.
Or at least she'd never encountered the information before if the girl had.
Beth kind of waved the whole idea away, as if it wasn't something to rush
It was Beth that told the story, which sounded far different from her perspective, being a tale of how Gwen, using her magical powers, had located the missing children and then, out of bravery and honor, the men responsible committed suicide, so that the horror would end.
Billy looked at her and forced a smile that made the round scar on the right side of his face crinkle a little. He had a matching one on the left, like the red dots on a clown face, but it stayed about the same. "Good. So, we know that Gwen here is decent at using her precognitive abilities, what else did the testing say? No one told me the results yet."
It had been a while, but she hadn't asked, fearing that she just wasn't good enough at anything to bother training. Her brother hadn't been able to do much that way, and had to rely on the bit he'd gotten as a child, from their insane mother, who was trying to turn him into a super soldier as a test subject. No one mentioning it was probably because of something like that, Gwen had figured.
The Westmorland Detective seemed pleased by the change in subject matter however.
"Decently high in short term precognitive function, her strongest area is in teletransport. In this case that means that you can learn to move objects and use other physical effects. Short of using the Westmorland protocols, which you're too old for I think, we can't recommend trying to move through space itself, instantly, but levitation, pushing things with your intent, that sort of thing, should all be possible, if you practice enough. You also have some innate healing talent." There was a soft smile and a quick flipping up of the palms, which seemed to be that she didn't know what else to say, even as she kept speaking. "We've been looking for someone that can tutor you in the correct basics. We also need someone to go over how to resist mesmerism for you. I fear that not being able to do so is keeping you out of most of the work you should be doing right now."
That was something that had been mentioned before, but no one had seemed to care to pursue it, so she'd figured that no one really wanted her involved in anything important overly. That kind of made sense, being that she was from another world and all that. Who'd want someone like that being in on all their secret plans to stop the world from being destroyed? What if she was actually in on it somehow? Or, maybe they just thought she was a monster? That or just a stranger, which to most people was nearly as scary as the things that went bump in the night.
Fear of the other was a real enough thing after all.
She grinned, which took some work, given how down she was feeling at the moment.
"Right, I need to get on that now, don't I? Since I don't really have anything else to do it seems like a plan. Do you think I can hire tutors from the University for it? Doctor Grainger might know some people." He was in radiatives, which was kind of how they built their magical technology, but he knew people there, being one of them, so maybe some of the kids would be willing to lend a hand? Everyone knew she was from another place now, so it didn't have to be hidden that she just had no clue what to do with her abilities. A lot of adults didn't bother really learning more than basic skills after all.
It was kind of like learning to play the violin, she guessed, from what she'd been told. Most people could do it, but very few ever bothered and even if they did, the vast majority never put in the time it would take to really be good at it. Katherine was powerful, but she hadn't really seemed to have practiced a lot, had she? Not if her strongest ability was Teletransport.
Or at least she'd never encountered the information before if the girl had.
Beth kind of waved the whole idea away, as if it wasn't something to rush
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