It's not that simple. I do what I want, but there are always consequences, and sometimes the risk is greater than the potential reward.

Obviously, I'm here now anyway, though.

[He tilts his head one way, then another, as if trying to analyze homo sapiens versus my people, maybe taking a closer look at his conversational companion. The concept of mutants is not unknown to him; they've been around Midgard for centuries, it's just that the rest of the population didn't notice until recently.] You think of yourself as a whole new species, then?

The status quo is always jealous of the extraordinary, and terrified of disruption. It's not just your planet that does that, unfortunately.