"Because people are always fully conscious of their personality flaws, and gladly announce them to new people."

"Knowing more than other people isn't a flaw, and why are you being mean I was just asking questions and he called me dense I didn't do anything wrong!"

And now the beach balls have disappeared and Sadde has turned around and his duck has paddles that are pushing him away and back to shore.

Maurice's boat glides alongside the duck. 

"I'm sorry. It's just Michael's a little sensitive about the tank. Not a nice time for him. And you did call him evil like three times yesterday."

"It makes sense to call people evil when they think spearing people is okay because it makes them stop thinking spearing people is okay. It doesn't make sense to call people dense when they ask questions because it makes them stop asking questions."

"I still think you could use a little tact."

"He's the one who said people should kill my father. And I could use a little tact."

"He's basically a humanoid dolphin who was raised in a tank, there's only so much you can expect."

"And I'm an eight year old boy without any mental enhancements, why does he get a free pass and I don't?"

Maurice resists an urge to apologize for holding him to Miracle standards. "He doesn't get a free pass either, I just think you should know that sometimes you kind of come off a bit, I don't know, snobby?"

"How is asking questions snobby?"

"It's the way you ask them. Some questions I mean, not all of them. There's nothing wrong with being curious."

"That doesn't help!"

"You haven't talked to many other kids before, have you?"

"Well I tried but then they said I was a freak and pushed me to I punched them."

"Why?"

"Because sometimes I'm a girl."

"Oh, I think I get it. It's just I've seen weirder."

"Well, they have, too, there are superheroes, but they don't think sometimes being a girl is a cool power, they think it just makes me a freak. Or their parents do and tell them so."

"I thought you kept your powers a secret?"

"I was sometimes a girl even before I had powers."

"Isn't that called being transgender? Wait, those kids are the same all the time."

"It's called being genderfluid which is also transgender. I think most genderfluid people don't have powers that help with this."

"That's a shame."

"Yeah. And it made kids push me around so I punched them."

"Cool. Did you use your powers on them?"