"Not exactly." Rojhaz explains, "There used to be people who could do things nobody else could...Sir Nicholas would call them witchbreed, we called them mutants. One of them went insane and decided to destroy the world. The other mutants only fed it...so the heroes who were not mutants sacrificed themselves to weaken it enough that it could be killed.

"Nick was in the first wave. Everyone died, ma'am. Someone, this kid named Richards, brought us back...but there were so many casualties that it just got dark. Not fast. The dark times came slowly, but they came. The other heroes aged and died, or they left for... other places...Most of the rest were hunted down and killed.

"Nick...my Nick...had been taking an injection that kept him from aging. Someone tampered with it."