[ At the nod, she does run her index finger through the ash pile. She's not sure what she's expecting from the experience, it's just that... Moments ago there was a solid object here and now it is not, she feels like she needs to feel that to actually internalize it. It's a terrifying power. ]

Then you're the complete opposite of Coordinators, after all.

[ And that is fascinating in its own right. Lacus leans back again, expression now deeply thoughtful. ]

The first generation of Coordinators was created artificially. "Designer babies", often made to their parents' specific aesthetic specifications. When Coordinators have children, they naturally pass on their enhanced traits, but the more generations of Coordinators there are, the lower the fertility rate. Left to our own devices, isolated and only reproducing among ourselves, we would simply die out.

I'm beginning to understand why we seem to talk about so much of the same, and yet such different things.