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* [[Taking You with Me]]: In ''The Demon Breed'', Ticos Cay's collection of biological specimens was assembled with this in mind, if he ever outlived his usefulness to the alien invaders.
* [[Teen Genius]]: Telzey ''starts'' out as one.
** Pehanron College (which is specifically described as one of the Hub's most advanced universities, that does its best to recruit only prodigies of one kind or another) seems to have a procedure for finding and developing these. For example, Telzey is already most of the way through pre-law studies as a college undergraduate -- at the age of fifteen. Her roommate Gonwil, who is about to graduate with a degree in finance, is seventeen, and its implied that if she'd continued with her education she'd have a graduate degree before she was twenty. Neither of them is considered as anything unusual by their peers, implying that while not everyone on campus is their age (a later short story has a small group of Pehanron students on a wilderness outing, and the age range runs from early 20s on down to Telzey as the youngest) there are still a lot of teen geniuses running around that campus.
* [[Tele Frag]]: In "Sleep No More", Telzey is stalked by a malicious hunting animal with the power to teleport. Upon realizing that its tracking her by her mental emissions and that it will catch up to and kill her the instant her mind-shield fails (which it will soon, as she can't stay conscious much longer), she telepathically hypnotizes herself to believe that her location is several hundred feet away from where it actually is and then lets the beast catch a glimpse. Sure enough, it teleports right onto her falsified position fix... which happens to be in the middle of a granite cliff. *BOOM*.
* [[Touched by Vorlons]]: How Telzey gets her powers. More precisely, Telzey was born with her powers but didn't consciously realize she had them until telepathic contact with an alien race "unlocked" them for her. However, the "unlocking" procedure went on for longer than it was supposed to, meaning that she gained access to some powers most humans didn't or couldn't.
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