"Yuri, do you understand how your power works?"
Damian looked like a teacher as he stood in front of the blackboard writing down the words "Yuri's power".
Damian said he needed to give me a crash course on my power, so we decided it was time to use this place for its original intended purpose.
"Yeah, I teleport things."
"But how do you teleport things?"
"Because I have superpowers?"
"In fictional stories, super heros usually have some kind of logical explanation for their powers; you are no different."
"I had no idea. I assumed it was circular logic. I had powers because I had powers."
"You may say you have no idea, but you're the one who figures out how they work in about two weeks' time. I'm sorry to say, I'm stealing your thunder and making the big reveal here and now. Your power works through wormholes."
"Wormholes? I don't even understand what wormholes are, yet I somehow figure out that they're how my power works?"
"Trust me, you make really big advances in the coming weeks. Now, to explain, these are micro wormholes, opening and closing faster than any machine can observe. They appear so fast, they encompass every inch of observable space in a fraction of a second. When you 'read the room', you're actually sensing every individual wormhole as a field. To you, they just feel like one big field instead of tiny holes going in and out of existence."
"How does this all cause objects to teleport though? If these wormholes can teleport things, people and objects should be teleporting all the time.*
"Correct. The portals almost never actually interact with physical objects. But, somehow, without realizing it, when you try to teleport something, you body manipulates the wormholes to cause that thing to teleport. Now, normally you would do this in a three dimensional way of thinking. You'd think of the ball and a point in space and teleport the ball to that spot. But, you are lucky, or more specifically, I made you lucky. You instead focus on the field of wormholes beyond three dimensional space, and connect the field around the ball and the field around the space you want to move the ball to. That was my doing. If I had let you learn how to use your power on your own, you wouldn't even know that field existed. Because I told you to sense the field though, that altered your power's very development. This is all to say, of all the ways you are beyond every other possible version of yourself, you have one of the biggest advantages in developing the ability to teleport yourself."
"I can teleport myself?"
I try to feel the room and sense the field. Although I can feel it, I don't feel where it meets with me.
"Don't be surprised that it doesn't work immediately. That is one of the hardest tricks to learn."
"But why?"
"Because, you are trying to sense yourself. It's hard to explain, but it's like, the closer you get to yourself, the harder it is to figure out where you are."
"I don't get it at all."
"Yeah, neither do I. That's how you explain it to me when you figure it out and I never end up getting what you mean."
"So, what do I need to get better at finding where I am."
"That's the best part. All you have to do is meditate."
"You gotta be fucking kidding me."