Now she just twined her fingers together nervously, because this still was something she wasn't very good at talking about or admitting, but he'd already put the pieces together, so saying it wasn't true wouldn't have done any good anyway. "Um, yes. There's- Well, there's a lot I can do with my powers, which is why a lot of people used to be afraid of me."

And she figured there always would be, because people didn't like things they couldn't understand. She was thinking the same things as John was, incidentally. The last thing she wanted was to cause another accident like the one she'd done back at home.

And the funny thing was, if he chose to talk about his life, the least she could do would be to listen.

"Isn't that a problem, though? I don't know what would come knocking back, and it could be something dangerous."