Devika gave him an unimpressed look, before looking worried at Kalinda's outburst. Kalinda had certainly felt whatever Nick was feeling, much stronger than she had. It made sense to her that since their powers worked in different ways, they'd be more sensitive to different emotions. Devika knew she tended to absorb sadness and fear much more easily for some reason, and she wondered which Kalinda had felt from Nick. Even though she was annoyed with the other girl a bit, she still hoped Kalinda would be alright. Still, there was nothing she could do- the only way she knew to come down from that was serious alone time.

"Alright, just a bit. Gym starts soon and I want to be able to walk straight." She followed him to a new machine. "By the way, I know you're lying, and I wish you wouldn't. It's probably worked for other people, but I can see 'hiding something' stamped on your forehead." She tapped herself between the eyes, and grinned. "If you don't want to talk about it, tell me that, but don't lie, okay?"

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Kijani found herself in the cafeteria. She vaguely remembered dressing and grabbing her things, but she had no idea what would possess her to get the buttermilk pancakes that were in front of her. Carbs and fatty dairy, and was that... maple syrup? She was really trying to hurt herself, huh? She didn't feel like getting up for something else, so she started eating in a half aware way. 

Sometimes she hated her secondary power. The email from yesterday was seared into her memory, and it kept replaying no matter how hard she tried not to think of it.

She knew that her grandmother had been banking on that when she sent it, that Kijani would read the words too quickly to realize what they were. Now the threat had been embedded in her head, and she didn't know what to do.

Well... she knew what to do, but it was just a matter of having the courage to do it.