[ time will tell, and maybe jonas will, too. for now, he's busy eyeballing the key and listening to what they're saying, well aware that they're both getting off-track of what the initial conversation was about. ]

A few other people I've talked to have said powers they usually have seem to be turned off. Maybe it's something like that.

[ anyway they say it's a parasite and he immediately goes "ah???" and leans back out of reach. no! bad! ]

I've heard of bookworms, but this is a whole other level. [ it...looks pretty harmless is the thing, so that's also wild to him. ] There's no other way to get it to move to another host or anything? It's out now. Maybe it doesn't have to go back when we get out of here.