"Oh, no," Michael agrees. He's never disliked the Pthumerians as much as a lot of people here seem to! "They're not a bloc or anything."

It might be easier for him to look at it that way, of course. He's immortal as well; he doesn't have any trouble seeing them as people and not forces of nature or whatever, even if his kind's nature is ultimately rather different.

"Well...you do have the ones who are kinda cult-y. You think they'd have a problem with it?"