"Ah--when I say mutants, I don't just mean blue eyes or lactose tolerance or the shit that apparently goes down on Barrayar. 'Mutants' in my world are people with something called the X-Gene that activates a bunch of what would otherwise be junk DNA. Results range from blue skin to fully-functional wings to less explicable superpowers, often in the same person. I do magnetism." She flutters her fingers, and her steel bracelet divides into three pieces and floats off her wrist. "Evil Nazi Doctor was also a mutant, he did some really nasty stuff with energy. He took an interest in Edie's dad because he manifested his mutant powers trying to avoid being separated from his mother. He...had no way of knowing how badly that was going to backfire. Anyway, thwarting Schmidt--who was using the name Sebastian Shaw at that point, we still don't know which if either was his real name--ended up being very public. Do you know about the Cuban Missile Crisis, Ivan didn't but he was neither raised on Earth nor did he display any particular historical interest that I observed."