"I have actually had more consistent negative reactions to the punching thing than to the telepathy."

"It's not great, an unluckily placed sock in the face can cause brain damage, but it won't usually."

"The part people react worse to is 'is known to do it.' Edie has never lashed out with her mind because she was angry."

"Never in her life?"

"Nnnnot since we were little enough she couldn't do anything with it."

"Telepathic toddler. Yikes."

"Telepathic fetus."

"You had mentioned that. I think the toddler version is scarier. To the best of my knowledge fetuses are less insistent about wanting things and having emotional states."

"I don't know about wanting things, but she definitely had emotions."

"Well, I haven't had a lot of close contact with fetuses in my lifetime, so perhaps I'm wrong."

"To be fair, we don't really have a large enough sample size to know if it's universal."

"But you did say there were other telepaths; were they not so as fetuses?"

"I don't know. Probably not. I had my magnetism as a fetus, and that's definitely abnormal."

"...Sound potentially messy."

"Think steel pennies and bobby pins stuck to the outside of someone's stomach. I didn't have control over it at the time."

"Okay, inconvenient but not messy."

"Apparently it was more adorable than inconvenient. But yes, a bit inconvenient."

"No puncture wounds or bizarre anemia, sounds all right to me."

"I can't even do anything with blood now, let alone when I was that little."

"It's the sort of thing you get better at over time?"

"Yeah. The iron in blood is really, really small. You have to get very fine control before you can do anything with it."

"Fair enough."

"I haven't managed it yet but I'm getting there."

"Was this summoning circle some kind of training exercise?"

"Ish? I think I mentioned I was trying to get a break from my sister being mushy."