Aisha stared her mother in the eyes. She didn’t deactivate her power. “Mom. You gotta stop.”
“Where are the rest of the papers, Sam?” her mom asked, oblivious.
Yeeah, if this is sinking in at all, it’s not showing any signs of it yet.
“Kitchen.”
“But I don’t want to get up. I’m comfy,” Celia whined.
“Hey, you managed to misplace an entire package of papers, deal with it yourself.”
“You keep going down this road, your kid is going to be born without a face or something,” Aisha said, her voice quiet.
That is not entirely impossible, especially in this ‘verse. Though it doesn’t sound like anyone’s (known to have) been born parahuman yet.
“You know how hard school was for me? Even as far back as kindergarten, I couldn’t sit still. Teacher tells me three things, and by the time they’ve gotten to the third, I’ve forgotten the first. And Brian doesn’t have any of that.”
That… sounds like ADHD, potentially. Not necessarily, but we’ve got the two main ingredients right here: Attention Deficit (seemingly manifesting in part as poor memory, which is absolutely a thing with ADHD), and Hyperactivity.
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