"It's usually not spoken of. The general public believes we don't exist, and for someone to ask us about ourselves would be highly suspicious," Kyle points out, not seeing the use of further pretending. Lying has never sat particularly well with him, despite the need for constant deception, and he tries to avoid it if he can.

"The British...Empire. There's more than one city?" That's a new concept. In Pelinor, the buildings are packed together; there is no such thing as travel, not really, given the easily-accessed public transportation. "2009 is...a measure of temporal placement? We measure our time in the lifespans of our President-Generals." Although, the mutants had a different, personal way of measuring time.

"Ma...gic. Does it explode?"