"Well, most of the time it takes a lot more effort," she explains.  "You either have to have a good idea of what you want, or you have to spend a lot of time playing around in the mirror."  Relief was quickly showing on her face as she wasn't being sent away.  "It's like, remember in The Matrix when they talked about self-image and all that?  You have to have a really clear image in your head, although I've never had much trouble with that.  My parents say I'm supposed to pick just one, but I don't want to be just one person, and they think I'm being ridiculous."  She gently sighed, shaking her head.<br/><br/>"That, and, well, people can get...mad."  She looked down at the ground.  "Two schools ago, I got really upset and started mimicking a teacher.  Nobody was fooled, I mean, I wasn't nearly tall enough at that age to pretend to be an adult, but the principal called it an 'abuse of my gifts.'"  She sighed ever so gently.  "Why is it when someone says that you're gifted, what they mean is that you're not allowed to use your abilities like you want, only live with the downsides?  That's usually called a curse."