[ he notices that, and -- kind of freezes, honestly, watching her. it's not a good reaction, not a reaction he can afford and he feels something prickling at the back of his mind and he lets it guide him out of the way just in time.
but... he hears the little boy's scream, and her defeated response, and he hesitates.
mutants... is that a word he knows? it seems like a very important thing to have forgotten, but he's distracted, too, by something else. a flash of... ]