#* thread. (magda)

       She’s never met someone whose thoughts are unreachable to her. Her powers may be a burden on her life and brought more pain than anything else, but they’ve also become something of a constant. She’d gotten used to hearing peoples’ thoughts in her head, and it does put her at ease— at least a little— to know that it’s not the Devil whispering in her ear. And even though she’s still learning to control them, she knows it’s not normal for someone’s mind to be immune to her abilities. Hell, she’d even heard the thoughts of the man who tried to kill her at the rest stop bathroom; she can’t turn her powers off even if she wanted to.  

       So, all of that begs the question: Who— or what— is this new guy?

       Magda heard the man’s thoughts before she saw him, and she only had a split second to react before the bullets hit. They should have killed her, but stopping them takes no more effort than stopping her mother’s knife. It’s playing dead and looking convincing that’s the hard part; it takes everything in her power not to fall apart on the spot. She sings to herself in her head until she hears him leave and his thoughts shift away from her, but she lays on the bathroom floor for another five minutes for good measure. Either that, or she’s too numb to get up.

       She doesn’t remember forcing herself upright, nor does she remember pulling out the flip phone that Beth had given her with shaking hands and dialing the number that she’d gotten from Sam. But the next thing she knows, she’s doing just that. It must be instinct, because she knows there’s only one person in the world who’s willing to listen to her. She can’t even cry; this must be shock, maybe. Or something. God, someone’s tried to kill her twice— three times, if you count the poisoned stew— in the past 24 hours, and she feels like she’s going to throw up the half a bagel she forced herself to eat at the bus stop.