"The latter. Most mutants are smart enough not to announce their presence. For that matter, most secret agents aren't, either. It's one of those things we don't talk about."

Kyle is content to keep scooping up and eating glop, mechanical though the motion is, while he listens to her. "A...continent. I assume it's larger than a city. How large is a billion?" How they can measure time based on God is confusing - does God have a lifespan as well? Based on what she's said of his omnipotence, it seems odd that he would succumb to time, of all things.

"This...magic...can be learned? I assume it's heavily regulated?" If there is a university dedicated to it, the government must be bad in different ways. Kyle's a cynic - there's no other kind of mutant.