[That DID sound a lot meaner than home. At least there were some people who cared about the innocent, at the cost of gratuitous property damage.]

[At that question though he nearly sputtered and his feathers pricked up.]

Ah- Yes. Yes, actually a lot of it had to do with that. There are people in my world called mutants. They're born a bit differently from other normal people. The rest of the world treats them something of a plague. Depending on where you live it'll get you killed- or worse.