"Something that I've found is that, when people are from different worlds, sometimes the rules are different," Mairi explains gently. "There's no real right or wrong version of a species or a kind of magic or anything like that."

A slight pause.

"For what it's worth, I haven't met anyone from a different world than my own that has anything like me. There's a gaggle of humans, a couple elves, two tieflings, even some machine folks, but not a single other genasi, and no one from a world that isn't mine even know the meaning of the word. Not that I'm asking for pity, I just mean to say--- you're not the only one having these kinds of experiences."