At Emma's glance, Jono just gave his shoulders a shrug and shook his head. If they'd managed to figure out where it came from before, he certainly didn't know about it. And there was a part of him that didn't want them to figure it out, either. In the wrong hands, the knowledge of where it started could very well lead to people searching for a way to stem it at the source, and he really had no interest in becoming a member of an endangered species.

//There are more now,// he added, //in my time, at least, than there ever were. Mutants are manifesting more frequently. I have no idea what might cause that, either. It's hereditary, to some degree, so interbreeding between regular humans and mutants might have a hand in it, but I doubt it's anything quite so simple.//