Accelerated learning

My third period started more quickly than I would have expected.

I was taking computer classes, and I was working particularly hard in this class. Although my power was incredibly useful, I needed at least some information to start with. Human bodies made sense to me, but it wasn't like I was just going to be able to speak Chinese without at least hearing a guy speak the language.

Once I learned enough about coding I'd be able to help more with the programming parts of Tinkertech. Unlike my classes in Winslow, classes here were self paced. That meant that I didn't spend half my period on the Internet while the teacher helped the slow kids. The good thing was that I had been good at programming even before my powers had kicked in. Now I was advancing at a rate fast enough that I suspected that the teacher had suspicions that I might be a Tinker.

I'd had to force myself to slow down a bit and spend the last fifteen minutes of every class surfing just to keep to a pace that she might be able to believe from a gifted but not genius student. It meant that I had to study more on my own time, but it couldn't be helped.

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