"You could always ask him about it. He'd probably be fine with telling you about his childhood. It shares the common theme of mutants having shit lives." Maybe she shouldn't use the word shit around him but he was already more adult than most adults so it seemed silly to censor herself too much with things like that. "It was pretty nice. Definitely made our lives a bit easier here and there. We all needed practice with what we could do. Some more than others." Some had more destructive powers after all.

"Exactly! Like an owl! A wise Owl. Kinda weird how they've almost always been symbols of that actually." Almost made her wonder where that came from. Owls didn't seem particularly wise to her, just maybe slightly more than the average bird. Yet the association went back as far as gods of ancient Greece. Had to have come from somewhere. Illyana happened to think all weird was better than no weird. Normal people were boring and they also didn't unusually understand things. Which made things difficult and also more frustrating than she wanted to admit. Her own people sometimes didn't understand her and the things she'd gone through. Normal people didn't stand a chance at all.

"If it helps, as you get older adults get slightly less confusing." Only slightly.