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[that's part of why it's so amazing. he lifts his head to smile at her a little, and then tips it back further]
In my time -- mutants are still a myth, few and far between. Normal people don't believe in us. We're like alligators in the sewers.
My power developed young enough that I would have sensed others like me, but in decades I had only ever met two... Raven, when I was a boy, and Erik, a few weeks back. [he shakes his head] Erik told me the same thing, then. "I thought I was the only one."