[He is a good listener. Mops appreciates that. It's uncanny in various ways, talking to red-blooded humans. They're so much more like the humans she knows, compared to the various alien species, that the differences feel strange and unreal. That she feels strange among them.]

I do. I was born and lived as a feral for at least two and a half decades. The Krakau changed me, but their science only goes so far. I'm a "cured human", something between what I was and what you are.

[Wolf would absolutely go 'you wanna see my blood?' at a moment like this. Mops has the impression that that wouldn't go down so well with people who feel pain and can bleed to death.]

I never thought I'd get to meet... I don't even know what to call you.