"Uh, yeah," Karolina replied, looking off to the side, briefly, as she carded a hand back through her hair. "That actually kinda went with the whole evil parents thing? I was raised on the other side of this country and it wasn't until I was sixteen that the whole... parent thing happened, and I found out that they were aliens and so was I."

She made a face, the way you sometimes did when something sucked but on the other hand, what could you do?

"It was a lot."