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“It’s not everyone,” Impulse adds.

“No, yeah, obviously you don’t have to,” says Scott quickly. “It’s just a thing, like…”

The covering her ears and yelling idea is looking increasingly appealing. Gem says, “I don’t wanna hear about it! I don’t wanna know about it! If, if you two—”

Scott says, “Gem, you don’t actually have to, obviously.”

Yelling for one thousand years, actually. Maybe more. “I don’t even wanna think about it! He’s like my dad—it’s weird and gross—”

“Whatever the Clockers had going on last season was weirder than that,” Impulse says, to Scott, which isn’t helpful, and Gem doesn’t even know what that means.

“Or the Bad Boys,” Scott says, to Impulse.

Gem does give in, then, and claps her hands over her ears. Maybe if she ignores them for long enough they’ll leave her alone and stop talking about horrible things.