"You're probably right. G appreciated meanness," she said, and it was hard to sound mean when giggling, but she tried anyway.
"I know, but this part, learning to live with it without feeling so bad is part of controlling it," she said. "How many time y'all told me how cool my powers are? But you can't really let yourself think of it that way. You just use it again and again, treat it as an experiment, without thinking about what it means about you, because when you do, you start to go crazy, wondering just how human you are and how much you can do, so it's best to stop now."
Savannah raised her head. "Why do you worry? You know I won't leave you. And if you do, what can we do to make you stop thinking about that?" She couldn't help but smile a little. "You know, besides that thing that makes it official, called marriage and that you'd never ever need, because the relationship is just for us and you don't need people to know that I'm yours and I'd never leave you, no matter what they said. You know? Besides that."