[Hank raises his eyebrows at the topic switch, not considering actually telling her for a second. It's not like it's some big mysterious secret that people - sometimes, according to some stupid secret magic rule he's not allowed to know - get whatever nasty shit he happens to be feeling shoved inside their heads when they touch him. It's not- whatever, it's not important enough to make a big deal out of but he doesn't like talking about it, and isn't really feeling like forcing himself to now when it's so obviously not what she was going to say. He decides to go with her first topic first, follow the second only if she insists on it.]
What if I said my special superpower was hearing the end of people's sentences?
[His voice is dry, and he gives her a really faint, crooked little smile - not great, but the best he can work up - as he says it. The kid wants to talk. Needs to, maybe. If this is what she needs to talk about it won't hurt to make a little joke, soften things up enough to make it maybe a little easier to say it.]
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What if I said my special superpower was hearing the end of people's sentences?
[His voice is dry, and he gives her a really faint, crooked little smile - not great, but the best he can work up - as he says it. The kid wants to talk. Needs to, maybe. If this is what she needs to talk about it won't hurt to make a little joke, soften things up enough to make it maybe a little easier to say it.]
A long time since what?