I went because of the school there, actually. Only school for freaks I'd ever heard of, and I seemed to qualify. I left then because I manifested at thirteen and my father disowned me before he kicked me out.

[ She shrugs, trying not to sound more bitter than Noriko knows she already does. ] I've clocked close to six hundred miles an hour. Kinda unfair to everyone else for me to fuck up the point spread like that.