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[bookofnope]

Bending spoons. I see.

[It's hard to convey a raised eyebrow in text. This does have him hesitating, though. Bending spoons is a parlour trick, and even in a world where the supernatural is an established fact, there are plenty of charlatans.

Plus, this is apparently a child. How good is his judgement really?]

I'll need to know a little more about those techniques of yours before I can speculate. We do have some evidence to suggest that the original residents of the town possessed some traits beyond the human, which were not suppressed, but I'm not sure we'd be allowed even such leeway.

[ritu]

[Ritsu is just going to assume that comment was one of interest because bending spoons is not lame.]

There were various methods. For example, my older brother was born with psychic powers, as were many other people. These tended to be known as "natural-born espers." Those who awakened these powers later were usually not as strong.

[Mostly.]

For myself, stress was a primary factor in my awakening, and my power tends to grow with it.

[Mostly.]

A lot of experiments were run concerning the use of stress to awaken psychic powers. They had varying amounts of success, however.

That said, this area seems to be stressful to begin with.

[bookofnope]

[Now that's starting to sound more familiar, and thus convincing. Some with powers at birth, some awakened, experiments, stress... he knows these stories, but then that's true of most stories for this old man.]

If it's stress you're after, I've got excellent news for you. But I would not recommend running any personal experiments to try to bring your powers back out. Others have tried that, too. They mostly discovered creative ways to die.

[Norbinbury is low on every resource except ways to die.]

If you were not born with your powers, then you should know how to survive without them. My best advice is to focus on that.