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Different Masks
done anything that no one else has. I AM a normal human being."

"That's not entirely true." Bookworm walked over to where the information was printing out. "Says here you were a smoker before the accident."

Phenol looked at him strange, "Yeah, so?"

Bookworm pointed at her KAT scan, "Usually, that would kill brain cells and leaves black spost in different places on a person's KAT scan. Notice there are no spots at all on your brain. That means, to a medical professional, that you have been totally healthy and never smoked a day in your life."

"Well, I might have just recovered from it really fast." Phenol said, "It's probably nothing."

"It takes years for a smoker to fully recover from that." Bookworm said.

"I am not a FREAK! I am not any different than you!" Suddenly the KAT scans flew off the table. Both Phenol and Bookworm looked at them as if they were possessed. "Did you see that? They just flew off the table!"

Bookworm turned to Phenol with a look that made her feel uncomfortable, "Stop looking at me like that! You're giving me goose bumps."

"I knew this would happen eventually."

"What?"

"Ever heard of the term ESP? It is most often found in cases of amnesia, near death experiences, being struck by lightning, and stressful experiences. You have gone through all but one." He walked over to Phenol and put his hands on her shoulders. "Your brain has grown at an acelerated rate, which is why the doctors thought you wouldn't live, but your brain stableized and stopped. At that point, your body might have tarted to regenerate itself and you came out of a coma. Now a year after that happened, telelconisis has surfaced spontaniously, and sooner or later, you will be able to do other things."

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