[quote=@Balance]
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*Sets off walking*

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There's a lot more to the story, of course.

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Wait. The library never mentioned abilities.
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*Follows.*

Of course it didn't, they only started popping up after everything went to crap, likely as another side effect of whatever caused it all. 
You know when I was talking to Hestia earlier, I mentioned that most of the people I've run into consider those with abilities to be evil or crazy in one way or another?

[quote=@Host]
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It's been a while then.

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Feel free to continue then.
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It has.