Venus backs off, but she looks like a cornered animal. If she had hackles to raise, they would still be up, and her lips are curled into something very close to a snarl.

"Where I come from, people who look strange get beaten to death with rocks in the street. Just for being different." She leaves it there. No need to explain that she didn't always look human either.

What was it Tike said? Black and a mutant...that's like black with a little extra black thrown in.

She reaches back and pushes Kankri's hand off her arm, then squeezes his hand.