Fight With Fire

5

I stride across the lunch room to the tables with the younger kids scanning the crowd for familiar faces. I look at one table that looks like a group of mini-elites and see a boy I had found hiding his Aerdell. He is a Phiar that had the ability to grow parts of his body. I see him reach down the table letting his arm grow longer and longer until he steals a piece of chicken from someone's plate before bringing his arm back again making it normal length again. When a girl turns around to see one her chicken missing, everyone erupts in laughter while the boy eats the chicken. I smile feeling responsible for this little boy's success.

I see that the girl was also a Phiar that was hiding. She hadn't known what her Aerdell was but her Drell was making it harder and harder to speak. I see a small image appear above the table as if being projected. Everyone sees it and points at the boy eating the chicken. Then a large image appears in front of the boy making the boy scream in fright and drop the chicken. Everyone laughs again and the girl beams. She seems able to project images that she uses starting when her Drell took her speech. Again I feel satisfaction because this girl wouldn't have ever learned her Aerdell and she would've lost her speech anyway. Now she found a new way to communicate.

I look in the other direction to see a little girl staring at me wonderingly. I tried to glare at her to see if she'd flinch but she just held up a hand showing an iae marking her as having Mind Control. I stop walking and change my path to walk towards her. She continues holding my glare giving me the impression that she is not pretending. She is truly not afraid of me. She is a young little girl that looks big for her age. She has glasses that keep falling off her nose and messy brown hair that keeps falling in front of her face. She smiles at me. Who is this girl?

"I'm Amy and no, you don't know me."

I give her a stunned look completely confused. How'd she know exactly what I was going to say? I'm too stunned to speak but she continues anyways. "My Aerdell is Mind Control but it's not really like that." She says gesturing to her iae. "I can hear peoples' thoughts when I am included in them." She frowns to herself. "Although it can be very confusing when I am added to a thought. You see I have just started to garnish. Although any time someone thinks of me directly I hear it as if listening with my ears!" She states this last part excitedly. When I open my mouth to speak she puts a finger up. "I know the Drell will be pretty bad  because of how strong the power is. Honestly it is already very overwhelming because people think of me a lot more than you'd think. Why do you think someone with such a strong power is sitting by herself and not with the mini-elites?"

I decide to try something out. Can you hear me when I speak to you in my head?

She gives a nod. "Yes"

I am very impressed. I know she can hear that and I don't care. "I think I like you." She beams back at me. "Would you like to talk to a friend for me? Tell me if he thinks anything weird but don't explain your power to him, do you understand?"

She nods enthusiastically and grabs my hand to walk with me. My immediate instinct is to pull away but what's the point of that. I walk her over to the table which was my original destination before I got side tracked by Amy. I let Amy sit beside Charlie and I sit beside her.

"Hello! I'm Amy. What's your name?"

Charlie is so startled that he drops what he's working on. He turns to the little girl very startled to see her sitting with me. "I'm Charlie."

"Hi Charlie! What are building there Charlie."

He continues looking startled and turns back to the machine which looks like a larger version of what he had shown me when I first questioned him. He looks up at me questioningly and I give him an approving nod. "Well I'm building an instrument which makes music."