"Just like any other border police operation," Shannon summarized. "Only with more political BS tying it up. Have you actually started doing any of that yet? You mentioned school and your gang and all that... Or are you actually part of that movement at all?"

It would stand to reason that just as people bred themselves for generations to become the perfect mix of genes and magic, that some people would be born into the lines who wanted nothing to do with it. Like Eli, compared to Javier, Matheus, Harvey... any of the others. (He himself had no idea where he fit on the spectrum, wasn't sure he even belonged in it without memories of what everyone else was on about.)

Maybe Shannon was reading into it too much.