Soma blinked slowly. "That doesn't sound like you at all."

She doubted he was lying--why would he lie to her now?--but she wasn't sure what to think of his description, either. Whenever Lingormr had mentioned being different from the people who had raised him, he had always mentioned a tendency towards bookishness. The people he supposedly hailed from didn't even sound capable of that.

Not everything is determined by genetics, said Marie, and of course, she knew that, but it was a little baffling all the same.