"I meant it as being more than human," he pointed out. "You make it sound like an insult. You're super human. Homo Superior. That word is there for a reason," he added, frowning and upset that maybe she did see him as less for what he was. He'd get it for what he did, but not what he was.

"They're not. Sorry, but they're not. One is more evolved, further along the evolutionary scale. That is science. Sapiens are the past and we are the future." When he said we, he gestured between them.

"Why does that bother you," he asked.