He starts at the light touch before he can even think that he should try to contain a reaction. It’s intimate. Or an accident. But it’s not normal.

Which is ironic, because that’s what Vance is saying. Robbie laughs as he obliges and stands up – maybe it will hide how he short-circuited. “I don’t know who you’re talking about. I’m just a normal guy who was hit with a ray of weird energy – with his cat – and spent the next few years saving the world with the also normal guy who can move things with his brain like Matilda. Totes average joes.”

There's a pause as his brain finishes rebooting. "I guess the standing thing is my cue to leave."