"I'm just asking," Lilinette retorted. "Lala's grey too and his is a mutation," she pointed out. It wasn't like you could avoid the fact that two of the five people in the room were grey, and the other one had wings.

Although she was an Aegyl. She didn't look like the pictures Lilinette had seen of Aegyls. She was the wrong colour, for one, but if she was a mistant, that probably explained it.

"I've heard of Aegyls," she said, approaching the table next to Road. "I haven't met one before, though."