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[char_he_mcgee]

Naughty-When I was seven, I pulled a girls hair at school because she grabbed the better crayons

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[corpsecakes]

[The "200 plus acres of private government property" sounds unnervingly familiar.]

You, uh... There's kind of a fixation on fire there, huh?

[char_he_mcgee]

For reasons. [This is Charlie, trying to be vague and mysterious.]

[corpsecakes]

Yeah, uh... Just wondering.

[But hell, why not-] You don't happen to know about plasmids, do you? [She certainly doesn't look deformed, not like the regular users he's seen, but if there's something else like the stuff out there...]

[char_he_mcgee]

Plasmids? What are they?

[corpsecakes]

Er... Never mind. [Real smooth there, Jack.]

... Is it really "naughty" if you did that to someone who deserved it, though?

[char_he_mcgee]

No. I didn't decide where these went on the list. Personally, I think defending myself in any way in dire situations isn't naughty at all.

Now, seriously. What are plasmids?

[corpsecakes]

[Well, crap.]

They're, uh... They're this stuff that gives you special powers- superpowers, I guess. [No need to be any more specific, or mention he's a user himself.] Like the power to set things on fire.

[char_he_mcgee]

Oh! [Yes, Jack. That is excitement in her voice. Just a bit.] It's pyrokinesis where I'm from. The ability to start fires with a thought. I was born with it.

[corpsecakes]

Born with it? [Huh.] How'd that happen?

[char_he_mcgee]

My parents were part of a drug test. They were told it was for a new painkiller. It altered their DNA and in turn, mine.

[corpsecakes]

Oh... [There's an unspoken "wow" with that.] Well, uh... At least it didn't do anything worse, right?

[char_he_mcgee]

Depends on your definition of 'worse'.