You aren't a freak. You're intelligent, talented, and beautiful. If your parents didn't see that they were both blind and stupid.

[If Cam ever has the pleasure of meeting Athena's father, he'll break him over his knee. Bigots like him have no place in the modern world. If it weren't for the fact that those who choose not to evolve eventually go extinct, he would be a much angrier and more violent man.

He squeezes her tight against his chest, hugging her like he would his daughter, because she's become something like one in the short, albeit intense time they've spent together in Riverview.]

If they accomplished anything near great in their lives, it was you.