"He's human?" Brainiac 5 repeated in surprise. "Oh, my mistake. I had just assumed that he must not have been, considering his appearance and how many of us come from other worlds. But I suppose some sort of genetic mutation or metagene could account for it as well." Stranger things had happened, from his experiences anyway.

Hearing that in Peter and Kurt's worlds people were less accepting of metahumans was unfortunately familiar. The Coluan boy's eyes dropped to his hands, quietly folded in his lap, and his voice took on a more pensive quality. "Unfortunately people aren't often willing to accept what's wildly different from what they consider 'normal'," he said. That hadn't changed, even across hundreds of years and different species.