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You clear your throat, casually pick up the compressed plastic spoon, and lean on your arm on the counter. That was so smooth. Glasses seems excited too.
"That's awesome! You really are psychic now. How do you feel?" You give an uninterested shrug.
<span class="mu-i">Yeah, I mean, it's whatever. These things come easy to me.</span>
"Uh-huh. Well, this is much faster than most psychics. I couldn't do anything to objects for about 10 months after I awakened my powers. I was a lot younger than you though."
<span class="mu-i">How young were you when you could do this?</span>
"Uh, 10 months old." Wow. You suddenly feel a lot less proud of yourself. However, you reason that you've only been a psychic for twenty minutes, and having the skill equivalent to a psychic infant is still better than what you had before all this. You feel a lot better. You can tell the imp in front of you is reading exactly what you're telling yourself and you grow frustrated.
<span class="mu-i">Quit it!</span>
"Sorry! I told you, I can't control it. It's passive. You should have a passive effect too."
<span class="mu-i">I can read people's minds?</span>
"It's different per psychic. Can you read my mind?"
<span class="mu-i">I don't think so. How can you tell?</span>
"Well, if you can't tell, I guess you can't. It's pretty obvious when you can read someone's thoughts."
<span class="mu-i">Then how do I know what I have? Nothing seems different. Was it maybe the spoon thing?</span>
"No, what you did to the spoon was just basic psychokinesis. You don't have an extra perception? No tingling feeling in your limbs? Anything?"
<span class="mu-i">Nothing.</span>
"That's... weird. You should get a passive effect from the start."
<span class="mu-i">Damn. Wait, so you were able to read minds out the womb??</span>
"Something like that. I don't remember it at all, but my mom said I was very quiet when I was born."
<span class="mu-i">Weird.</span> He smirks.
"What's weird is that you believed me and let me make you a psychic without knowing anything about me. I don't think I even told you my name yet." Oh... yeah. That's awkward. ... You should probably ask— "My name is Frederick. Or just Fred. Not Freddie. Only my parents and my older sister call me Freddie."
<span class="mu-i">I figured you'd have a more... out there name.</span>
"Well, the first idea was Yevgeny after my uncle. But my parents are huge Scooby-Doo fans, so I became Fred. Guess what my older sister's name is."
<span class="mu-i">I dunno, Velma?</span>
"Scrappy."
<span class="mu-i">Your parents are evil, man.</span>
"I know." You decide to get back on topic.
