"It's the same with me," Emma agreed smoothly, picking up where Jono left off. "I believe the term I've heard on the news once or twice is homo sapiens superior, which I cannot argue with." Her lips twitched in amusement. "It's far more accurate than 'mutant menace.'"

"But our power rests in our very DNA. No one knows what causes an X-Gene to manifest, at least they don't in my time-" and she shot Jono a curious glance. "-but you either have it or you don't. You can be a latent mutant, if you haven't manifested yet - or ever - but you're still a mutant, powers or no."