[ That earns him a smirk. The books are far superior, but John's never said he wasn't a snob. ]

Yeah, it doesn't quite work like that for us. It's funny, because it's the same gene for all of us. At least, we call it this one thing, but it's coded differently for every Mutant. And since it's not even hereditary - most of the time, anyway - it's just. This random thing.

[ He shrugs a shoulder. ]

Makes my brother and I outliers, because we actually have the same set of powers.