Nick smiled and took Ky's hand to give it a firm shake. "The pleasure is mine. You're starting to make me feel downright normal." After all, his normal was people being startled by him, if not outright hostile. Being asked about his looks wasn't too far off the mark for him.

"As for being a prototype, where I come from, they've upgraded to bio mechanical synths. Can't tell the difference between them and you," he says. They're unlike him, with his not quite the right texture skin and eyes. Of course most of them aren't being used for good reasons either, but he doesn't need to get into that.