He returns. "None of the kitties I asked knew who you were. Guess that's to be expected."

"Yeah, I meant ask these ones why, absent you, they would've attacked me. Or peed on me."

"Oh. They say they might have attacked you because your smell doesn't match your you."

"My what doesn't what my what?"

"You don't smell like you."

"What does that mean?"

"The smell that comes of you is weird. They say you smell like a boy."

No she doesn't.

"Huh, they say you smell different now."

"Like what?"

"Just a girl. Or cisgender female, whichever works."

"Oh. Hm." Frown.

"Oh, sorry, that means the parts down there match your gender."

"I know what it means," she sighs.

"Sorry. Still, it's weird the kitties were so indecisive."

Ssssiiigh.

"It's 'cause of my power."

Martins smiles. His cheeks should be splitting. He zips off, and returns with all the other kids. Including a pyjama clad, sleepy looking Maurice. 

"WE KNEW IT!"

She folds her arms. "Yeah, yeah, whatever. There's a giant ball of yarn behind you."

And now that she's set up the expectation, there is. Poor kitties.

She clearly forgot that only Maurice and Evan were actually vulnerable. Rupert and Tigger actually smack into the wall as they bound past the shrieking boys.

She giggles. The ball of yarn should survive a while out of her sight, it'll be fine.

Once Maurice regains his bearings, and fully wakes up, he finds himself full of questions. "You're an illusionist? Psychic or photons?"

"Nope, I just make stuff appear. Or disappear."

That's the cover story for now, anyway. She's only had about a year to practice, maybe she'll come up with something better in the future.

Maurice evidently considers their powers to be part of the same family, or at least on Christmas card terms. "I'm a 'chromatic aerokinetic"." 

"What's that mean?" She likes those words.

"I can manipulate the air into becoming whatever shape I want, and change its colour. I can change anything's colour, actually." To demonstrate, he turns Sadde grey. To add to the effect, he also gives her some illusionary claws.