"Aight, so hear me out. You know miss Flamekissed, obviously. I'd take you for a liar if you didn't, what with what she did at the wall. Hush, sssh, we're not talking that. Classified that, but we all know what she did. Aight, so. We know the tales about her unnatural instincts, right? How during Explorations, she has a sixth sense to where critters are hiding, even better than a Spear, right? Well, so here is a story a mate of mine heard from a nurse, the story about how she was unnatural from the very start.
"Now, this nurse heard about it from his now-retired mentor. That mentor had a strong tale about a baby born almost three decades ago, didn't say much because privacy, but well, it's hard not to connect the dots when said baby still looks like her parents when she's at the surgery table twenty-nine years later.
"Okay okay, I see the glares, shut up, get on with it. Aight, so, the juice. Now this lady shows up at the hospital, about ready to pop. She gets to a bed, nurses at the ready, normal birth, all good. But you know how it was back in the days, utter paranoia, overkill, four nurses and a doctor at every bed. Too many healthy people yet for how many medical folks they brought on the Starseed. So they're all around the bed, birth is in progress, when BAM. Explosion! Oxygen tank ruptured due to a smoker, fire, alarms going off, sprinkler defect, Murphy's Law!
"While the fire is starting to blaze, the staff just goes, well, we have a baby to deliver, can't really help it. Ma'am, can you push a bit faster please, thankyouverymuch. So, more pushes, baby comes out, nurse has her in his arms, when suddenly the baby takes a dive! Slips right of his arms, so he goes fuck, dives after it. And just as he hits the ground and saves the baby, guess what happens? The fucking ceiling fan crashes down, cuts straight through the umbilical cord and the ground where the nurse just stood. So yeah, supernatural instincts even when she was just a wee babe, that one. Hey, what you rolling them eyes for?!"
— A semi-drunk Defender at an undisclosed bar in the Night District
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