“I don't show a lot of people. They like it at first, but then they get afraid.”
Wolfgang has the power to make people breathe on the moon, and shuffle layers of reality like playing cards, and travel hundreds of thousands of miles in a blink. That's a lot of power in one person, and eventually it unnerves people. What else can they do, and how much control over it do they really have?
They wonder, though. Wolfgang weathered the unjustified hostility from their peers because they had someone to fall back on, a family, but they are aware that even their parents were afraid of them, and slightly disliked them, though they made every effort not to show it. How much worse would it have been if mild disquiet had been complete disinterest, or worse, loathing?
They would have hid all the time. Never come out at all. What would that do to someone, they wonder.
“I think I care too much what people think of me,” they say at last. “I always wanted to be liked, or I got upset. You have to let people see you for that.”