Mutants aren't nearly as interesting or as much fun as movies have led people to believe. Amil dropped a coin he could ill afford to give away into a beggar's cup because the beggar had a dog. He wasn't proud of himself, but while he could brush off pain to humans, pain to animals was intolerable. The beggar's too-thick tongue didn't allow him to speak, so he had apparently trained his dog to tap a paw on a scrap of cardboard upon which was scrawled, "THANK YOU" in thin, crooked hand.
The mutant beggar made Amil think back to mutant superheroes; while tragic and misunderstood they were still heroes with powers, each more dramatic or frightening than the last. Real mutants had twisted DNA, either before or after birth, that didn't cause them to be super-human; they became less desirable as human. Mutants' DNA twisted and turned from humanity, and humanity, abhorred, turned from them.
Inspired by "The Healer" by Aimee Bender. "There were two mutant girls in the town: one had a hand made of fire and the other had a hand made of ice."
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