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*smiles* S'that th' television remote?

Uh-huh. *attempting to dissect it*

*grins* Would you like some help?

It's broken. *hands it over anyways*

Ahh, okay. *opens the back, inspecting it*

*digs in her duffle bag and pulls out some fresh batteries, puts them into the remote and closes the back* Try that. *hands him the remote*

*blinks at it* Now what?

You press these. *points to the buttons* They make th' television turn on an' off, an' it changes th' channels for ya.

*blinkblink* Why?

Well...people like t'watch television, an' sometimes they don' like t'get up an' walk over to th' TV t'change channels. This means you can jus' sit down an' find somethin' you like without movin' around.

....I don't get it. *but is having fun pushing buttons!*

*smiles* I don' watch a lot of television, so I kinda don' either. *grins, watching him* There's stuff way more fun than TV, anyway. I like playin' games an' flyin'.

You can fly?! *tosses remote to the other side of the couch*

*nods, grinning* I surely can. *floats up a bit, then floats back down*

...again! *grinning*

*giggles and floats back up, doing a little somersault before floating back down*

Againagainagain!!!

*laughs and does it again, adding a couple of twists*

*applauds happily*

*giggles and curtsies*

Are you a bird?

Oh no, darlin'. I'm not a bird. I'm a mutant.

...is that like an airplane?

No. It means that I'm a person, only kinda evolved...like, when I was born, I was a lil' diff'rent from most folks. I've got diff'rent stuff in what makes me me, an' it lets me do diff'rent thin's than otha's. *smiles ruefully* Does that make any sense?

*blinks* Like me?

Sort of, I reckon so. *smiles*

Mama says me and my brothers n' sisters are real special, even if me n' Cara n' Hope were born that way, and M'Lynn and Finn got that way later. Are there others born special like you?

*nods* Ya'll are special! *smiles* I think ya'll are wonda'ful.

Yup. Lot'sa folks are born like me.

Really? But you don't know us all!

Woooow! Magic?

*smiles* Well, I've met you, y'lil' sista, Hope, an' y'momma, an' ya'll are all great.

No...not magic, really. Science, I reckon. I dunno.

All them? When?

....is that like serious magic stuff that my sister does in the big books?

Th' otha night when ya fell asleep. *smiles*

It's like...hmm. They do have books 'bout it...but, it's not magic.

...I didn't!

Oh. It's um...si-yence.

Oh. Okay.

Mm hmm. Science. Yup. It's um...learnin' 'bout what makes thing's work th' way they do.

I never fall asleep. Always watchin'. *nodnod*

Oh. Huh.

O'course, darlin'. *nods back and smiles softly*

*giggles* Yeah...I don' completely unda'stand it, eitha.

You gotta use it to watch cartoons! I can help if you want, I know ALL the best cartoons!

*blinks, hands it over*

If you push these buttons *she points to the channel buttons* You can go to the cartoons!

*slowly pushes them* Nothing's happening...

I don't know. I can't make it work either.

Broken?

I don't know. I don't understand it.

What's is for?

The TV.

Oh. Why?

I don't know.