writers_muses prompt set 131.6 [a loss for words]

[its_notluck]

It wasn’t the first time Phoebe had been allowed to stay with Claire and Hiro overnight but it was the first night that they had any inclination that there was something different about her. Not anything bad but just different in the same way they were different.

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[powered_otaku]

Hiro looks at her. "A ball of shadows? Was it just, perhaps, a black ball she brought with her?" Not that he remembered her bringing any toys. Usually she kept her toys here so that the bullies at the orphanage wouldn't steal them from her. Maybe it came from the orphanage?

[its_notluck]

"Even if it was a ball that she brought, it was floating between her hands, Hiro." She shook her head a little. "She wasn't even touching it and it was floating."

[powered_otaku]

"She must have an ability. Psychokinesis?" He's about to pop up from the couch and go tell her that she's not alone, but he sits right down. "How do we tell her? Will she be angry because we did not tell her right away?"

[its_notluck]

"I don't know, we'd have to ask Mohinder if he knows what it is." She wets her lips as she watches him get to his feet before sitting down again. "I don't know. Maybe she'll understand? I mean, maybe it'll be a relief to know she's not alone?"