"Do you like... live in a cave or something?" Jamie asked. He didn't realize he was being rude and he didn't mean it to come out as bad as it sounded. He just didn't understand how someone couldn't know about mutants. He lived in north bumblefuck, Kansas and he knew what mutants were. Mostly because he was one, of course.
Jamie liked animals well enough. He scritched behind the dog's ear. It seemed happy. "Good girl," he said, patting the dog. "I don't mind it that much. It's something to do," he said with a shrug.