"I'm kind to people I like." Kayla replied, and it was true. She tended to give people the benefit of the doubt, but she had little kindness for people who had earned her scorn or distrust. "And anyway, what matters is that here we are. Together. With giant awesome burgers ripe for the devouring."

"We've pretty much all got our things that we need to work on. My powers, I don't really have trouble with them firing when I don't want them to, but my control is really crap when they do. Which is bad, because there's a difference between a knockout punch and a mini-Hiroshima.

It'll be fine. Doc McCoy and the others will figure stuff out from their end, and you'll do it from your end. You're not alone with that." She reached out again to give Brianna's hand a squeeze.