"There are enough, it seems, to effect the population enough to merit books on the matter," Padma countered. Enough to her and get away with it, too.
"Thankfully, my boss is a friend from school, and no one wants to tell me what to do for fear of the young rebel Wizengamot member being my boss. Never mind that I'm an ST and they avoid me like the plague regardless." Padma had taken to wearing cardigans around anyone she was working with for the first time. It was easier to get things done if they didn't know she was an ST. When people found out she was an ST, they either gave her a pitying look—rarer—or a look of utter disgust and contempt, which happened more often