"So," Caleb started. "Are you going to explain what just happened?"
"Do I honestly need to?" Jamie asked, casting him a sideways glance.
Caleb frowned. "Well yeah... sort of."
Jamie sighed, smiled at him and pulled his knees up to his chest. The pair were sat on his living room sofa, and Jamie had politely kicked off his shoes to get comfortable.
"I can't do what you can do, but I can manipulate people using my looks, hormones, illusions and superior intellect," Jamie explained.
"Do you have these nanomachines inside you? And the AI who talks inside your brain?" Caleb asked.
Jamie laughed and shook his head as though Caleb had said something ridiculous.
"So what allows you to do all of those things?" Caleb asked.
"When I was a kid I suffered brain damage.
