"I'm sixteen, so probably not," April replied, smiling despite herself. Replace 'drinks' with 'pizza' and he could have been an older, human Mikey.

"I know a guy who lives in a giant glass canister because he was turned into a pile of translucent goo?" she offered, since they were apparently sharing weird stories. That was really just the tip of the crazy mutagen iceberg, but it seemed like an auspicious place to start.

"Where was your mate's house? There's a big difference in that story if you started out in, like, Canada than if you started in Australia."