"Unless you're power hungry and Monopoly is the only way you get power." She was all kinds of smartass today.
"Well, I can stand at an assembly line and do my job without paying much attention to it. Which means I'm really terrific at staving off boredom. I haven't been bored in years." Annie tried to think of other things, more serious things. She ran though what they'd already discussed, her power. That was the big bit, really. "I dunno. Smart ass remarks? Dance really well when nobody is looking? Most of my time has really been spent doing something or other with machines, electronics. My power manifested early on, so I feel like I've never really been without it. Most kids don't even know until they've hit puberty that they can do anything. I didn't have to wait. Who knows, I might have made a fantastic cheerleader."
Annie glanced up as best she could. "In the City I ran a shop. And I was helping a friend with a complicated surveillance system setup. Tracking the movement of the streets. Trying to figure out if there's a pattern to the way things are there. Getting the video cameras to communicate with each other and share their information with a single computer to compile a database."
She shrugged a bit, and smiled, settling back to the way she'd been leaning. "My ex boyfriend also said that I kissed better than anyone else he'd ever been with. So I guess that's something."