"'Normal,' I think you'll find, is vastly overrated." She raised her own hand again, the orb of red energy flaring to life immediately, but this time is just stayed there, hovering and dancing above her fingertips.

"If they want to lock you up it's only because they lack the imagination to consider anything beyond their own narrow view." And, therefore, they were beneath her consideration. They were only people. She was more.

She gave a wry smile at the girl's assertion, though, that she could handle it. She almost laughed in her face, but managed to hold it back.

"You can handle it? By running away? Forever?"