"And how are you planning to do that?"

"I tried just making a cure for aging like the cure for cancer and it didn't work so I guess I'll have to be more creative than that."

"Huh. That's much more surprising than the cure for cancer having worked at all."

"Really? Why do you think so?"

"Because it suggests one of a couple of different surprising things. If your power can only create things that exist, then someone has already invented a cure for cancer. If it can create anything that could conceivably exist, then there is no substance that can fix aging but not cancer, even though they are biologically very similar processes, and this invites the question of why. It could have been that your power would create a substance when you asked for a cure for cancer that did not actually cure cancer, but this is less likely now."

"There're aliens, maybe some of the aliens are more advanced than us and cured cancer but not aging yet?"

"Why do you think there are aliens?"

"Made plastic models of all the aliens in the universe, got a bunch of them."

"All of them?"

"I don't know if I got all of them or not, I didn't want my bedroom full of tiny plastic aliens so I stopped after a bit."

"When did you do that?"

"In New York. I put my building back and then I tried putting people back and then it didn't work and then I curled up and cried a lot and then I tried making stuff to see what'd go."

She stops walking, and extends her arms in a hug-inviting gesture.

Hugs!

Hugs indeed!

"So it could be that none of these aliens have invented a cure for aging yet, or perhaps their biology is such that they have cancer but do not age."

"Yeah. Or that 'aging' isn't a thing and it's a combination of more specific things that they do have cured, even."

"I believe there's research about how the DNA gets shorter as people grow older. And some parahumans might not age at all."

"Huh. That means I should be able to find a way to do whatever they're doing. I think."

"Who? Other parahumans?"

"Yeah."

"Why do you think so?"

"Dunno. It seems like the best explanation of my powers is that I can do stuff if someone's already done it."

"Do, or make?"

"Well, make."

"So you won't necessarily be able to not age even if other parahumans don't."