She nods. "It might." "Thank you."

"I - like helping." She really doesn't like feeling helpless.

"I know it hurts not to be able to help."

"But I don't know if there's a way to help with this."

"I'll feel better in a while even if you don't do anything."

She nods, slowly. "Okay."

"Sorry."

"It's okay. Or - not your fault."

She nods and curls up again, zoning out as she does when she's listening to something somewhere else.

September starts quietly reading her book.

Rescue stays that way for a while, occasionally manifesting objects - a change of clothes, a water bottle, a blanket, and eventually, lunch, which she doesn't immediately move to eat.

September gets through a few slim books, takes her portion of food, but looks, worried, at Rescue before eating.

She looks back, when September looks at her, and shrugs, but goes for the rest of the food.

She does seem to perk up a little, eating, and takes her phone back out. "I'll be okay."

"You can ask me about it if you want to."

"What - happened?"

"The place I was at before was for kids who were bad at things." "I'm bad at talking, and they thought they could make me talk anyway." "I can a little but it hurts." "So they tried to hurt me more so I would do it anyway."

"That's horrible!"

Nod nod nod.

"Capes are not supposed to get their powers when they're little but I did."

"Why are people so mean."

She takes a while with the phone, this time.

"They thought they were helping us." "They thought it would be okay if we learned to do things eventually." "That it wouldn't matter how."

"Lots of people think bad things are okay if the eventually looks pretty."

"Yeh."

"They're wrong."

"They really, really are."

She nods.

"There isn't anything bad about reading to me. But one of the other kids used to and it felt like I was there for a minute."

"I'm sorry. Not - I don't think it's my fault or anything, but I'm sorry the situation's bad."

She nods. "I think it's getting better."

"Hopefully..."

"I think it is. It's definitely better than when I first got out." She shudders slightly as the phone reads out the words.