[He leans forward - before stopping and getting up to make himself some tea. When he returns it's with two cups of his favorite green tea inhaling the scent of it.]

You talked to the little boy too?

It's that there are so many children here without parents. The locales hate me. They're far too focused on my lessons though. They hate me but they're just...looking at me.

[He shakes his head.]

It's fine. Until I figure out what's going on with me I'd rather be working on my own. Talk to a few people I've spoken with who believe psychic ability is a biological process. Not a supernatural one.

[This is so hard. She can probably see his fingers trembling because after what happened to her... There is genuine fear pouring off him.]

...Not just a supernatural one. Because if it is also a biological process there may be a way...some kind of biological process to stop. Deva. And all of them. Science defeating the supernatural.

[It's instinctive, moving to reach for her hand.]