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Now I've got all this whipped cream and nothing to do with it.

Hey Ethan, did you take those pictures for me?

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I've got wardens reprimanding other wardens left and right, but I gotta save somebody's life or something big and impressive, or I'm gonna be stuck with no powers for, like, ever. They keep saying I've got to "prove"

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Oh well. I'll learn to live without the cheerleader's friendship somehow.

[Private to Adam]

Useless platitudes, mostly. Sam said:

"It doesn't have to be anything big. Just... sometimes, the right decision, at the right time is enough of a start. It's all about taking what's happened to you, and rising above it. Becoming a stronger person for it."

"The best you can hope for is to break past their cynicism. Being sincere and sticking to it's a good start, but more importantly, you've got to prove them wrong about you."

"Have you tried sitting down and talking to the people who're laughing at you? Not on the journals, I mean, but face-to-face."

I really don't feel like having a heart-to-heart with anybody. Other than that, I don't really know what he's talking about.

And Libby said, "Prove you deserve to be forgiven. Work at it." She's a strident harridan but it's kinda the same thing Sam said.

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Libby, but she sort of hates me a lot. I can try fooling the new guy into giving me my ability back, but after playing the good girl for too long I get really bored. Maybe Morgan. She's, like, friends with Libby or something, and I don't think she hates me too much.

I told Sam they were. And nobody except Sam has been exactly nice about my desire to find redemption and become a better person.

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Cool. She's next on the list then.

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Do Libby.

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Then you can tell her how sweet and vulnerable I am underneath my evil exterior.

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Come on, I'm supposed to be winning people over. Would it kill you to put in a good word for me? Make something up.

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You know you're my favorite four-hundred-year-old British guy. But just in case you didn't, you totally are.

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Cool.