“So, Reikia….where’d you get such cool powers?”

“Huh?” Reikia asked intelligently, her leg now under the steaming water. The word ‘cool’ wasn’t something she would expect to be in the same sentence with her powers, unless of course someone was stating how they were not. She had been reminded enough times at her previous school what a freak she was, but here was different. Students here had powers too.

She struggled to answer the question; a long pause where nothing was said. The only noise made from the water rippling rhythmical against them. Hesitantly she finally replied, breaking the silence.

“Erm… well I think I got my power around after my mum died. I was five I think. Azrael, the one I did earlier, I didn’t know I could do till some time during school.” She paused for an instant, lost in thought, then adding with a grin on her face, “Well… what about you? When did you learn you were special?”