Well at least he and Mia were on the same page there. "Some honesty. Some training." He agreed, "Things are easier if you don't feel like ou have to keep secrets." Only to find out later that what was happening to you was the end result of a very elaborate experiment.
"Puberty is my guess. It's how it was for most of us. Maybe earlier with two mutated parents." He hated the word mutant, but what else could he use to describe what had been done to them? "From what I've seen, it's random. I think they're about as likely to have you or Tino's powers as they are to have anything else." Ben eyed the boys as they ran off with their cookies. "I hope, for your sake, that neither of them have mine."