"Flip the Bubble-Headed Boy. Kindergarten horrors and playground echoes. He was ahead of the class. Children can be cruel. Do not stare at his head. He has exciting talents. He talks to us, though he thinks we're Jungian archetypes out of the collective unconscious. He can take you on an inward journey. He can make you forget how to breathe if he asks you to. In all of creation, is there a sight more lonely than a seesaw for one?"
— The Buzzing, The Secret World
He was born a telepath, and to be born a telepath is to be born in the deep end of consciousness, as you share immediately the workings and learnings of all within mental range. For them, it is either sink or swim. Most sink, but not Pierre Jr. Perhaps being protected from the hostile and indubitably confusing influences of a larger population and gestating within an enclave of carers, nurses and teachers, performed some sort of positive early modelling on his fresh brain.
Of course, all this happened within the womb, swelling his skull, and he was removed via caesarean. His psychokinetic potential was beyond control, as too his mental domination. As such, none could stop him escaping when he chose. He was the boy who could levitate before he could crawl.
Of course, all this happened within the womb, swelling his skull, and he was removed via caesarean. His psychokinetic potential was beyond control, as too his mental domination. As such, none could stop him escaping when he chose. He was the boy who could levitate before he could crawl.
— The Museum of Unnatural History, by David M. Henley
