Thanks. [he grins.] And yeah, definitely got right on the "getting help for this" train. The Legion has an on-site psych doctor, she's pretty cool. And handles the "holy crud, you're an alien, we don't have contact with aliens back home" staring very gracefully.

[He rubs his chin thoughtfully.]

Huh, that seems pretty wild. And I guess if people have been being born NEXTs for forty-odd years, people in your world have been looking into it pretty heavily.

...Still, "some weird genetic thing happened that we don't understand yet" doesn't weird me out as much as "sometimes people just get super powers from drinking chemistry experiments".