My story? The same as everyone else's. I had the intelligence before I arrived, so I'm fully capable of managing multiple cognitive tracks and all that advanced neural processing stuff, and I was already an expert in mathematics, engineering, and the hard sciences.

[It sounds more like reeling off a lunch order at the drive-through than bragging.

Val shrugs.]

My whole family is supers so it's not like this is a change of pace. I don't like to sit idle, and we can't afford it, anyway.

[Oh yeah, the thing that always comes up.]

And yes, I'm three. Yes, I'm human. Yes, my intellectual development is extremely unusual for a three-year-old human. It's hereditary.