"Naw, not a freak. Just an abnormal. Abnormals aren't freaks," she says, meaning it and not at all meaning it as an insult. Though she pauses then. "Okay. Uhmmm... We need to study that. Find out how and why."

She holds up her hands though.

"Not now though. Just... for your sake. Okay?" Because that worries her more than thinking he was born this way. She's known the world that way. Gaining them? It could overload a person.

"I'll come by soon and we'll talk about it, and thanks for my knuckles back."