"Perhaps," Annabelle says with a nod. "Although it seems they were born with their abilities rather than acquiring them as we did."

Her lips quirk in something that's almost a grin. "He didn't take my profession that we understood what it's like to be different terribly well," she admits. "Although that may have been merely the straw that broke the camel's back."

That much stress and anger is going to find a way out, eventually.