A young mind, vulnerable to all kinds of mental and emotional attacks.
Soft as cheese, yet has the capacity to go above and beyond.
The spectrum of imagination is simply much wider than a grown up.
Although their creativity defies logical reasoning, the idea itself is within the relm of possibilities. As technology of modern times was indeed illogical in the 1800s.
Then again, if the immature brain owns a flexible range of thoughts, it falls prey to wrongful manipulation.
So strong, yet so brittle.
Proper channelers of their potential become child prodigies while the broken ones wind up as terrorists.
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