"You really want to take free food in exchange for grown ups telling you what to do?" Gert asked, sceptically. (She might change her tune a bit once their current economical situation got more obvious.)

Karolina shook her head. "It's not like that. Fandom's pretty... free. And I don't have to hide my powers there. No one does. There are lots of kids who are, um, different. And it's okay."

"I don't know," Nico said. "It sounds too good to be true."