Senses parahumans

"My Thinker ability is strong enough to make me a Trump in some cases," I said. "I was concerned about revealing this, because I feared that people would be concerned."

The people in charge here weren't PRT; they were at least mostly parahumans. I could feel it on an instinctual level. They were pragmatists too; pragmatic to accept what I was and what I could do. They were farther away than I would have expected; it felt like they were on the other side of the planet, but they were here. I wasn't sure that Jack's parasite would have worked from another universe, but fortunately I was in multiple universes at the same time.

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"I can detect a mass of parahumans on the other side of the planet," I said. "We're in another dimension. This lab was already built a long time before we got here; it didn't exactly have a new smell, and some of the paint is peeling on the walls."

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