"Dear me," Adam murmurs. He's equal parts fascinated and horrified by that detail; it's interesting to him that there's an entire culture around his counterparts in her world, but he doesn't see the use if it would just lead to open hostilities.

"We--meaning those of us with the requisite genetic mutation--do not fight, but I can't say we wouldn't. I suspect it's a matter of us simply not knowing about each other. I do believe, were the larger world made aware of us, there might be conflict with them."