Perhaps a demonstration was the best way to explain it. David held a hand out in front of himself and above it a pyramid made of golden light formed. It transformed into an orb, then into a daisy, before finally disappearing.

"I'm a mutant, the next stage of evolution of humanity in my world. A spell took away my mutation, the mutation of the vast majority of our species actually. In the end, there were less than two hundred mutants left after, when there had been millions of us. There was a way, later, that a lot of us were made whole again, myself included. But in the years that I was without it, I was fully human. I... I didn't belong among my own people. Seeing as I was a teen I was desperate to find a sense of community at the time, and I didn't fit."