"Got you smiling. A smirk out of you is raucous laughter out of anyone else." Once he was human again, Gar stood in front of the Portkey. New York was merely a poke of an innocuous object away, so Gar decided not to answer her question until they were on the other side of the half-faded poster for La Bohème.
When they landed, Gar continued talking as if he hadn't just been flung thousands of miles into an abandoned alleyway and almost stumbled headlong into a dumpster. "So yeah. That was neat. Anyway, Mom was kind of famous for playing these really strong female roles before it was common to do that, kind of a Sigourney Weaver with more pulp crime drama and less sci-fi. That's how she ended up getting her powers: shooting a movie in Africa in the late eighties."