"Well, I wouldn't put it like that. 'A shapeshifter' implies I can change whatever, whenever. It's not like that. I can just turn into a wolf. Sometimes we just develop an ability like that. It's the same with these." Nadine gestures to the little pearly points of horns sticking out through her hair.

"They're not decorative, they happened after I first visited the Horizon. I can also touch someone and diagnose whatever's medically wrong with them. I call them gifts from the Singularity."