"Those are the only choices?" Jono asked, smiling with shallow amusement because a tongue-in-cheek answer came more readily to him at that moment than an honest one. The institute had given him a place to go when there wasn't anywhere else and being there had allowed him to do some amazing things with his new powers. He'd even met some decent people. But the place still wasn't home and being there came with as much of the bizarre and unsettling as the incredible. He still wasn't convinced that the room he shared with Bobby had been completely purged of the smell of zombie.
These thoughts came and went quickly, though, and he fixed Julian with a renewed look of doubt. "...Maybe you should elaborate. 'Blonde, ponytailed, and volatile' is a bit vague."