2nd Floor Common Room [Wednesday Evening]

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Bridge is in the Common Room, notebook on his lap as he studies for finals.

Of course, he'd probably be better able to focus on studying if the TV wasn't on. But there it was.

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"Cut out the part about the space colony, and I might even be able to follow!" Faithful grumbled in his sleep and swiped his tail at Alanna's face.

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"It's mostly just your typical romantic cheese, but in space," Bridge shrugs.

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Pause pause. "Cheese is good."

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"That's my philosophy, yeah."

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Alanna nodded and made another cupcake fly to her. "Want one?"

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"Oooh, sure." Bridge grins. "I have yet to figure out how to do that with anything that's not a telekinesis ball. Or sand."

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Alanna waved another cupcake over and to Bridge. "Making things fly is one of the first tricks Gifted children learn. Usually by making their toys fly around the room, to the joy and happiness of their parents."

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Bridge snickers. "I would never have done that. I was an exceptionally well-behaved child. Of course, this could be because I could sense grownups coming, and usually managed to stop whatever I was doing long before they got there."

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Alanna laughed. "That must be handy! Most parents are thrilled though when their kids start making things fly and set them on fire. It means they're Gifted and well, have a lot more opportunities in life." She frowned a bit. "My twin and I were probably some of the few kids who had to hide their magic from a parent."

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"Yeah, my parents were... weirded out at first- humans where I'm from generally aren't supposed to do stuff like that- but were mostly okay. Yours didn't approve of magic?" Bridge asks.

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Alanna bit her lip, hard. "No, not quite. My Mother was Gifted. But shed died in childbirth and my father was devestated that neither her Gift nor ours was strong enough to save her or something. So he forbade us from ever using our Gifts." She shrugged. "He died never knowing what Thom and I managed to pull off."

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Okay, now Bridge is sort of internally flailing.

"Sorry," he says apologetically. "I didn't mean to, um, bring up bad memories."

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Alanna shrugged. "Don't really care. At least if he's dead he's no longer sending letters to "Alan" and addressing them to Thom." She laughed lightly. "That's what I tell myself at least. So what's your home like then? How'd you get weird powers when it's not normal?"

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Bridge shrugs. "No idea," he says. "I've just always been able to see... differently. Two of my friends back home have weird powers too. Sky can make invisible shields, and Syd can turn her hands into whatever she touches. Never try and spar with a girl whose fists are made of iron," he tells Alanna.

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"Woah. I'll uh, keep that in mind. That must be cool."

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"It can be, yeah," Bridge grins.

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Alanna grinned back at him. "So what can you do?"

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"Sense any kind of psychic energy- thoughts and auras, and even just the traces that are left behind after you leave a place." Bridge explains. "That's why I wear the gloves, because it's a little distracting to see that *all* the time."

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"Oh. Wow, yeah I'd imagine that would be distracting." Alanna paused for a moment. "Can you see a person's future?"

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"Only the really recent future. At least, so far." Bridge says. "Like, if something big was gonna happen to you next week? I could tell. But not if it was, like, four or five years from now."

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Alanna nodded. "And you always need your hands for all your powers?"

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"Yup," Bridge nods. "The gloves don't block everything, but at least the rest is just background noise."

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"What about, I don't know, different type of gloves? Or possibly some sort of magicked gloves or something?"

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"I don't know," Bridge says. "I'm kind of used to it. I switched bodies with Anders and Cally, once, and spent the whole day without my abilities. It was... quiet," he shudders a little.