"Does it say specifically age eighteen."

"I believe so, but no lawyer is going to tell you it doesn't count because you're older in Mars years or whatever."

"Oh, I'm pretty sure I'm more than 18 Earth years. Your years would have to be more than twice as long as ours and ours have more days."

Sigh. "Well, if a truancy officer comes by tell them that."

"Okay! Can I go now?"

"Do you know the way back to the library?"

"No. I was planning to ask people."

"Please do not terrorize random passersby. If you'd had the foresight to wear a mask while doing obvious cape things you might not be intimidating out of costume, but here we are."

"The masks thing sounds dumb and my family doesn't require protection. Does being asked questions terrify locals?"

"If capes do it and they aren't heroes, yes."

"Okay. How does one learn things if they can't ask questions and it's rude to read minds -"

"One doesn't go around brandishing one's powers. One attends school and watches the news and has parents."

"My mother is dead - permanently dead - and my father is in another dimension."

As opposed to what, dead till her alarm clock goes off? "I see."

"As opposed to dead until Mandos - you don't have Mandos - when humans die are they just - disembodied forever?"

"...when we die we're dead." Unless you go in for religion, but she doesn't.

"I'm sorry. I can look into doing reembodiments like Mandos does but it'll be a long time even if I figure it out."

That doesn't have anything to do with parkour or telepathy. "Mm-hm."

"Yeah, see, if you keep assuming I'm a cape you're going to keep being wrong about what I can do, that's another reason to take me seriously."

"If you can resurrect the dead I'm sure everyone will line up to apologize for assuming you were anything other than what you said you were. The library is straight ahead as you exit the front door."

"Maybe Father orchestrated all this to make me appreciate good governance." And he leaves. And he goes back to his library and he is pretty hungry by now but drinks more water instead and he reads and he reads and he reads.

A linguistics grad student shows up and wanders the stacks vaguely.

Looking for him?

Yep. Oh psychic ca-ape where aaaaare you.

He sends his location.