"To be honest? I don't know." Nick reached for a towel and mopped off his face. "I was somewhere else before I came to the Nexus. An alternate dimension of some kind, I think. It was an island, no way off, teleportation didn't work, no one knew how we were pulled there, but there was one constant. We were all human. I could walk in the sun again, no powers, no demon. Just me as I once was."

He paused, took a drink from his water bottle, shrugged. "Before that, I didn't have the opportunity to find out. People, men and women, tended to avoid me a lot."