Raz was the only one who wanted to be a Psychonaut.
The rest of the children just wanted to blow stuff up. They liked the idea of burning things and lifting them into the air. Lili scoffed at them. They didn't understand the potential of their own minds. No wonder the world didn't care about Psychonauts like they used to – looking at these idiots, it was a miracle the Psychonauts hadn't disbanded. Nils was a psychic peeping tom, Kitty wanted to braid everything, and Elton talked to fish.
This was the future?
Raz had arrived with all the fresh ideals a Psychonaut should have had. He wanted to do good. Not to set things on fire pointlessly (even though he did that anyway) or to blow up heads. Raz wanted to be a Psychonaut. Lili was impressed. He wanted to be a psychic soldier. Even telling him it was pointless didn't distract him. He blew her off when she said the world didn't need Psychonauts.
She smirked. Finally, someone who held their ground.
Raz did more than that, though. He would become a Psychonaut, come hell and high water. Lili had never seen someone work so hard to level up in her entire life. Even the part of her that thought it was pointless was impressed. Who else would walk on ropes and climb trees for their life dream? Scratch that, how many people would fight bears for their life dream at age ten?
No one, not anymore. People wanted their life dreams to come to them. They refused to work for it anymore. Everyone wanted dream jobs with no effort, no sweat, and no pain. It was all good if they didn't have to try.
For Razputin, he'd be suspicious if it came without work, effort, sweat, and pain.
Lili watched him a couple times, climbing trees and fighting bears for his job. There was a drive there Elton and Bobby didn't have. No one in the whole camp did except Raz, and obviously herself. It was that longing for something even when it seemed impossible. Even though the world would tell her that it was impossible for him to be a Psychonaut at age ten, she knows he will. He's got a desire to keep going that can't be shaken even when reality sets in.
Her light brown eyes follow him as he jumps from a tree to a rock face, scrambling all the while.
She knows what his desire is like. It's the same feeling she has towards him.
