"It is! It's useful," says Helen. "Petaal can do all kinds of stuff."

"Maybe one day I will draw comic books and they can be Super-Peculiar and fight crime."

"It would! But it'd be based on a true story, or at least a real person, like all the ones where the Shade-Dreamer does stuff."

Helen snorts. "Yeah."

"If we'd been born earlier we would've gotten to meet her. She was in our clan."

"I know," says Helen.

"I just think it's cool," shrugs Shura.

"I guess."

"You don't seem to think it's that cool."

"Don't I?"

"You don't! How come?"

"Yeah, okay."

Muffins!