things and how they seem

oia

"Mmm.." For once your measured countenance slips and you hum the feat beats it takes your mind to formulate an answer. "In a way. The focus isn't on freezing time exactly, but preserving what is inside. When I am stronger I will be able to freeze more than just a mere bird, but for now, this is about the extent of what I can do. It helps me study them, and is also useful when Kai and I find ourselves injured during the course of our research." Being able to, for instance, freeze the time around a small wound removes the pain and makes it infinitely easier to heal after.

"I...do not understand social cues. I perceive the world differently. Kai says it is okay,. but that others just don't understand it." Had this world the vocabulary of various spectrums and the names for the disorders upon them, you might have had a much easier time explaining just what it is that was so off about you. Your quirks and literal ticks, your inability to read social situations, your misunderstandings of facial expressions and tones of voice. "Kai has tried to teach me about expressions and what different ranges of voice mean, and what they mean when combined." He's tried to teach you a number of other helpful things (saying please and thank you), but it's an awful lot to remember, and because you don't really understand its importance, you find yourself forgetting.

of course it's exhausting, having to reason all
the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.

Coding base by Sky!