Well, for a pretty thing like you with an attractive IRF4 gene [a point he emphasizes by brushing James's hair lightly with his knuckles] I suppose so. I say IRF4, you would say dark hair and blue eyes, it's a groovy mutation. And, by the way, mutation took us from single-celled organisms to being the dominant form of reproductive life on the planet.

[Yeah...it's at this point Charles rubs his brow to avoid making any direct eye contact.]

A Freudian slip?

[Nothing need be said, yeah?]

It's something like that...I suppose I wouldn't mind getting back into that kind of shape. Enough to keep up with you.




[ooc: don't know if I mentioned this either, but Charles has no recollection of Luceti in the Sanctum so he will simply think Luceti has something to do with James's world.]