They're going to. But right now, it keeps them from telling me not to get involved. And after I already am, they can't stop me. [Or that's the plan, anyway.]

[He just . . . blinks at that. So he's not the only one who wound up with a weird ability.] Yeah, stuff like that seems to happen to some of us. Getting "powers" or whatever. I --

[He cuts himself off briefly, because this is still all so strange to him. But he continues after that quick pause.] I can freeze things.