"Depended on who they were talking to. A friend of mine, when she manifested and couldn't hide that she was a mutant, her parents called the government on her. If she hadn't gotten in touch with the underground, she'd be in a camp, instead of getting to Scotland where she was safer. Mostly." Cessily was about Peter's age, Emma thought.

"Her parents loved her. They thought they were doing the right thing, protecting her. The government let them think that. But they also let people who hated mutants hear the mostly unspoken message that mutants weren't people."

She shrugged. "Every world has its -isms and bigots. 'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,' or however the quote goes."