Ellen blinks a few times. "The skin color's weird," she says, "but... sounds like a supermutant. Eight feet of muscle in seven feet of skin, kind of look? They're like that."

She starts to reach up to scratch her nose, then drops her hand; Dr. McCoy warned her against that.

"Never seen one use a Stealth Boy... Star Paladin Cross said the ones on our coast're different from West Coast mutants, though. Yours... they might be smarter."