"Because their parents were this color?" she responded in kind, even tilting her head the way he had. It was so weird, how he seemed to know so much about himself, yet barely seemed to actually understand it all.
"Same way a pair of black cats make black kittens- but you don't have parents... not like that." Her eyes drew down to the length of his arm, and the strange metal structures that lined them like...corset bones. She traced one with her fingertips. Definitely metal, and definitely bonded to his skin- maybe deeper.