[Believe it, Marco. It is hard to out-sass a psychometer. They've grown up their whole lives having to sass people as a defense measure.]

Nah, lots of people have no idea what they're doing when they first start at the gun range. [That's totally what he meant when he said he'd be a special case, right? The way she grins as she says it though should be indication enough that she's deliberately misconstruing his meaning.]

And it is, kind of. Though I try not to shoot at anything but inanimate targets nowadays. [Though it had probably started off more as a way of giving herself, as a very young psychometer without any offensive capability of her own, a way to both protect the people she wanted to and to give her so-called caretakers something to be incredibly bothered by. Nothing makes people more uncomfortable, she had reasoned, like a ten year old psychometer with a gun.]