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There was agreement both for and against getting in contact with the cult member.

Though he didn’t exactly explicitly say it, beyond agreeing with one of the more rude Vanburen members, it was easy enough to tell that Justin didn’t agree with Tuyen’s idea. It wasn’t something that should bother her - she wouldn’t even be here if it wasn’t for his business here, so of course his ideas would make more sense. 

But it was enough to fuel the self doubts constantly dwelling in her mind and for the shadow to creep in where she’d held it off for the rest of the day. The voices around her took a slight sinister tint, vision blurring with shadows she knew weren’t really there. Tuyen’s lips twitched downwards into a pained grimace, gone as quickly as it had appeared as she forced herself back to looking as neutral as possible.

She was paying attention to this, not now. [i]As if she could just ignore what was the truth.[/i]

Oscar listened to everything Justin said with folded arms and a few nods. He wasn’t surprised when Sabrina suggested going to the police. Of all of them she was the one most out of place with… violence, in his mind. Not that it was something Oscar wanted to rush into. But a chance to see the cult’s Abstractions again, and discover any other tricks they may have? It wasn’t something he could pass up on. 

[quote=Justin]"So, uh, what can you all do by the way? Mine is Pyro-telekinesis. I can move objects with my mind but whatever I control catches fire. Pretty simple, yeah?" [/quote]

Tuyen stayed silent, deciding not to say or demonstrate her abstraction like Justin had. For a start, she couldn’t. Especially not right now. They’d already seen all she would be willing to explain, so even if she was asked by any Vanburen, she would only give them the most simplest answer. Even that was as a show of trust and so that they would trust her and Justin. 

Oscar’s attention, which had begun to stray, was instantly brought back by the question. It was something he was curious about too. Not all of his siblings were open with using their abstractions and it could be a little less obvious what they did. 

Ezra demonstrated an ability to improve objects… and himself it seemed. Oscar nodded as he spoke, committing it to memory to dissect later before flickering his gaze to the next ones to speak. Alexander’s was interesting to him, watching the conjured chains with a quickly moving mind as he tried to figure out how it worked. He wasn’t so interested in Raymond’s… terrakinesis was mundane enough, in that it was described in plenty of superhero films. The weaknesses, though? Interesting. 

The new girls were the most interesting of them all, having Oscar’s eyes widen in excitement. He wondered what kind of abstraction it was. An aberration of some kind? That would make more sense, but perhaps she was awakened. 

[color=Gold]”All very interesting,”[/color] Oscar mumbled, mostly to himself. His mind was filled with questions he wanted to ask them all. How long could Ezra maintain his spell? How big of an object could he cast on, how long did Alexander’s chains go, how-

[color=MediumSlateBlue]”Why does what I can do matter?”[/color] Trisha scowled, pulling herself away from picking her nails and ignoring everything going on around her. It was only when some disgusting phantom tentacle was pointing at her that she was given no choice but to look up. 

This was her absolute worst nightmare. Show and tell with their abilities? Please. Like she would ever admit to something so embarrassing. Did they think she was just going to pull out her laptop and demonstrate? As if. She was never, ever letting her family get wind of the fact that she could program… Nevermind that she found it genuinely interesting. She would die before she told them. 

[color=MediumSlateBlue]”Georgie’s right, I’m not just going to tell you all the details of what I can do. I don’t even know you so you can fuck right off. What I can do isn't that important to anyone here, anyway.”[/color]

It was a lie that she agreed with Georgie, because she never agreed with Georgie. It was just an excuse to not have to explain why she didn’t actually want to talk about what she could do. She was glad her sister had left, though. Just her presence was irritating. 

[color=Gold]”Oh, I can do two things, predominantly,”[/color] Oscar said eventually, having once again gotten lost in his own mind. He’d completely forgotten the point of all this and ended up focusing on all the abilities that had been shown. [color=Gold]”On one hand I can create and control water. On the other, I can essentially channel electricity through my hands.[/color]” He demonstrated this one, bright sparks jumping from his hands for a few moments. [color=Gold]”Both are simple enough on the surface, but I could keep talking about the nuances of it if there’s interest.”[/color]

Trisha snorted. As if there was interest.