"Preface: this doesn't make sense," he warned, "but apparently you just have to touch people. Touch. You don't have to, like, generate any kind of kinetic energy. Just the act of touch is the answer to their prayers or something, it's simple and I can't figure it out and I don't like that."

He can't help throwing his hands in the air to illustrate the frustration. It is a pain.

"And your powers go haywire if you don't, on top of the sickness that normal people like me get."