"Yeah," says Nori, completely understanding being visibly weird, and outcast and occasionally the target of mass murder, even if not because of a species difference. She hates thinking of them as Homo sapiens superior because it constantly sounds like asking to get smacked with something.

"You're way ahead of me, then," she says. "I got kicked out of my house when I manifested. Quit school, moved halfway around the world." Well, she says moved...she means illegally hopped a military transport out of Yokota Air Base. It suited well enough except for that.