Among the kids at the house, it was a well known fact that they were all a little off. They learned early on that having “gifts” (as the caretakers called their freakish abilities) was not something every child was cursed with. Some people’s gifts were alright; Yixing could heal people, Wufan could fly. But others had gifts that nobody would want to have. Zitao messed with time. Lightning was Chen’s gift. Luhan himself was burdened with the power of telekinesis, which sounded alright, but wasn’t. The problem was that no matter how much they’d been taught, none of them could really control their gifts. The gift seemed to be almost a separate entity from the person, as if the person was just a vase for the bouquet of thorns that was the gift. 

It was the reason Luhan didn’t understand why he had to leave.