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Chapter 4: Hyperbaloney (Raina Overbrook)

13-year-old Raina is a conscientious young woman. Case in point: lamenting Arthropod’s lack of punctuality when he was “fifty minutes late for being half an hour early.” So far, I really like this new addition to the “Gifted” character set.

I initially wondered if Arthur Podborski would resemble his I WANT TO GO HOME camp director namesake Arthur Warden—but his instruction (“My advice: Don’t need me.”) sounds an awful lot like executive tour director Charlie Butcher, who also had “only one rule” for his counselors in NO COINS, PLEASE. (@Owen, I’m not sure about “hate”–my take is he doesn’t have a warm spot in his heart for the next generation.) And Team Baloney is pretty much as wonderfully ridiculous as Team Ambulance.

Having Victor the Underestimator on the team sets up a whole bookful of potential potty humor. “All right, guys. Let’s take a bathroom break.”