"Like your portals it is also useful for getting to school - different requirements on knowledge about point B, Renée won't let me test whether I can get to the other side of the world without school supervision, I preserve no momentum - I can't hit a moving target, even if it's, like, a skateboard, it has to be stationary relative to the earth."

"Still useful, my portals don't actually move once I put them down. You can do a sort of piggy-back method where you teleport to one spot and then teleport further along, I do that with portals when I want to move quickly. Is it teleporting just yourself, or can you take passengers?"

"I can take one or both Allis, and at least one other person, but possibly not two non-Alli persons. That's why you're here."

"Aha! Well, test subject away, powers are exciting!"

"We were experimenting like all weekend," says Alli. "Bella does not let up, it was exhausting, I wanted to leave one of me home to nap for a few extra hours and then send Bella home between classes to switch us, you know? Just real quick it would barely even count as leaving campus. But nooooo, Mom says we have to register with the school office and say what we can do and they will tell us how we can use our powers and until then we shouldn't do anything weird." She sighs.

"Rampant experimental twin syndrome. I know it well." Savannah gives a pointed look sister-ward. "Isn't that right, miss four-in-the-morning?"

"I regret nothing," says the rampant experimental twin, brightly.

"Ugh, at least we were born at a civilized hour or Bella might've done that too."

"I would not! You have enough trouble getting sleep."

"I was experimenting quietly and trying not to disturb her," says Adana primly. "And then she threw a pillow at me and it became war."

"I would know better than to try to do anything in our room at night however quiet I thought I could be. It's basically miraculous that we can sleep in the same room, because she wakes up if the wind blows too hard or the house creaks, let alone if somebody goes to the bathroom, and I talk in my sleep. So we have to coordinate very carefully."

"You're making it sound like I have a disease. I just have ears."

"Oh, yeah, it's not like that at all with me. But when I was up she started asking me tons of questions."

"How hard was it for you guys to figure out your bonuses?"

"Mine was super easy. Things felt slow and I felt like I could go faster." Grin. "So I did."

"Mine took a while. It was just - spatial awareness and I kept wondering what it did. Eventually I got it, but it took a week. Savannah zipping around the entire time."

"I got spatial awareness but I might not have figured out what I was supposed to use it for if Alli hadn't used a convenient preposition. I think my awareness is different than yours, though, I get a sense of whether someplace is 'in reach' - and in sight is in reach, if it's stationary with respect to the earth, but I can use all kinds of entertainingly abstract information, same constraint."

"My powers came second but I figured them out first," brags Alli.

"Mine's more like... A sense of place to everything I see. I can tell distances and ballpark what speeds things are going at. That sort of thing."

"High-five for figuring out powers quickly?" says Savannah, holding up a hand for a high-five.

"I can't do that at all," says Bella to Adana. "Some things are 'near enough' and some things are 'not near enough' and I don't have any special understanding of them in relation to each other and the only speeds are 'moving' and 'not moving, or rather, only moving insofar as the earth is'. Oh, some time if it's convenient you'd be a good safety net for testing my ability to fake-fly, I think, in case I ever want to follow a moving vehicle that is not obligingly stopping at stoplights? Since you're used to providing portals to fast-moving teenage girls? But if you don't have time I can put a request in to Powers Counseling or something."

"Woot," says Alli, and she high-fives Savannah.

"I can be a safety net. If you want to be properly safe, though, take Savannah up with you when you fake fly. Reaction times, and the spatial awareness thing extends from her, too. I'm not sure how well I can juggle safety-netting and portalling to keep up with someone who's going at that speed."