Gretchen
Gosh, what an amazing day as the Sun set, concluding what was her prime condition for that day. Quite frankly there are many sources of light that should be able to empower her, and not just the most abundant thermal source that only lasted for most of the day.
To an extent, she’s felt empowerment from simply being in urban life and being around LED bulbs but it wasn’t as rich as how she’d describe it. Light, in its different wavelengths, have different… flavours almost, different sensations of how they interact with her light-sensitive body. Even without sunlight, she felt good with just the slight radiation emission from body temperature.
So many sources of light! Astronomical throughout the entire day! Lightning! Aurorae! Bioluminescence! Incandescence! Even as artificial as delicious Neon, a gas-discharged light source, and sonoluminescence so rare but not impossible!
Oh god, was she salivating? Hahaha!
She had to know what else she could do! If light was abundant all the time, she could practically be unstoppable forever.
Especially knowing that her schoolmates were so potent, that she needed to make sure she could keep up.
What was that?
Paranoia?
So Devika did change something in her…
Was Paranoia good? Coupling her mensa-high IQ, her analytical and deduction skills of logic, and her mentality of insatiable thirst for excitement and thrill, was this a good thing?
Perhaps that is what she needs.
People are always trying to screw around with her and make sure that she never gets her fun. Perhaps it was because she never thought them through and just went with it, complacent of the beings around her.
Now?
Now she understands.
She will learn.
She will adapt.
She will continue to grow stronger with her abilities.
She will have fun.
That’s enough for today. Even poor old Gretchen needs her rest. She didn’t feel hungry for some reason, so she light-ran back to her room and went straight on to her laptop, it hidden in a table drawer which will now serve as her work station.
She clicked on Random Article on Wikipedia, and read away!
Hahahaha!