Mattie shrugged and managed a small smile. "I guess I'm just not as popular as you," she responded. She had done her best to blend into human society as much as possible, cramping her wings against her back to look normal, wearing colored contacts over her unusually-pigmented irises, denying her reality at all times of the day except when she was training her flight. The truth was that she didn't want to be this...thing. She wanted to be human––just human, and nothing more. 

"So," she went on, "you and Do––er, Jacob, you two go around town finding others and recruiting them to your...army...? And distributing some kind of wonder-drug to them? And you're going to go fight a bunch of brainwashed mutants." 

She blinked. 

"Okay. I just need to let that sink in."