"You're a b-b-mutant!" Katriona explained, her tongue stumbling over furtive words. Blessed...what a term she never used. It was disgusting the way they called themselves fortunate, 'Blessed' to be half-and-half, never truly whole. Katriona despised them and their silly imaginings.
"Besides, you're unnatural. Maybe if you submit I can take you back to the government and they'll make you normal. It isn't right, the animal half!" Katriona was kneeling now, breaths surging hoarsely through her mouth. Her golden eye seemed to have faded to a much paler yellow, as cold as ice and twice as hard. They stared at the boy rigidly.
"And if you don't submit...well, I'll never stop hu-" Katriona froze and let out a hacking cough, doubling over as they leapt unbidden from her throat.