"Eh, call it learning the hard way," Alex said and then gave as an afterthought, "i did spend all last summer in China, too." Not that it did him too much good. His powers developed a lot more and he could do more, but he didn't. He would offer to try things but the problem was nobody would trust him to give a hand. He was the kid that almost killed another kid because he didn't know how to use his powers right. Now that he did, well, sorta, he was still tied to that reputation.