"Okay then."

"I'm not a telepath because I'm adopted but I teek."

"...what's that?"

"Teekay! Telekinesis!" She hovers her strawberry and cream thing in the air.

Sylvi looks at the floating beverage. "...So like puppetting but without the objects needing to have moving parts and... you can put them in midair."

"What's puppeting?"

"I don't have a puppet on hand to show you... if there's an object with moving parts, and it's not already another kind of servant, I can take it as a puppet and move its moving parts."

"Oh. Yeah, that's like teekay. But you can't pick it up?"

"If it has a spinnable propeller or something I can make a puppet fly, but only if it's shaped right."

"I don't think that's the same thing. I can't pick up a lot but I can still just pick stuff up."

"It's obviously very different, but it's the closest thing I have."

"Oh. Do you have other things? You're talking like you have other things."

"Puppets aren't the only kind of servant. I mostly work with shines, but I can do the other kinds too at least a little."

"What're shines?" Drinking the strawberry cream thing, still not using her hands.

"They're little spots of light, peeled off so they can move around on their own. You can puppet them or program them to move around on their own."

"Ooh. Program them? Like computers? My daddy works with computers."

"I don't know what those are."

"Uh...Bar, can you explain what a computer is?"

"Cool! You're gonna invent computers! That's so awesome!"

"Thank you."

"I'd offer to get my daddy 'cause he knows about computers but he's not home right now."

"Well, then I'll have to do without the tutoring."

"Okay. I bet you can do it, though, all the grownups say you can do what you want as long as you put your mind to it and are willing to work your hardest. And are willing to spend a long time being frustrated before it works and it's physically possible, but a bunch of them don't admit that part."

"I think I can do it too."