That was true. They used to pass their time by sharing information like this, though her list of questions had held out much longer than his. Now they read and trained.

"Maybe a little," she admitted quietly. "After my mutation manifested, I never even considered having children of my own. I was too wrapped up in trying to figure out who I was among all the other people in my head to think about things like that. And then by the time Remy and I were that close, the war was starting and there just wasn't time."

She sighed and looked toward the window. "Humans can be very cruel to their children. When I became a teacher, the most important thing to me was making sure those kids had the best lives possible, and that they were happy. Because most of the rest of didn't get to have much of that ourselves."