"No."

He had only hesitated a moment, taking care to understand from where the question came. But there was no dark and murky suspicion or hatred fueling it, not what he could detect. Remarkable, but a relief. And, more than that, a curiosity. She wasn't herself, was she? Not like the humans he was accustomed to, anyway.

"My kind are called Mu," he said. Simply no was hardly an encouraging response, after all. "We were born from humans, but we are not."