[She makes a sour face at that comment, but allows it to pass in silence. She is the one who told him to focus on more important things, after all. At his question, though, her demeanor shifts into something more thoughtful.]

It's a lot of research on mutants before we were called mutants, some of it going back thousands of years. Unfortunately, I have no idea why they're compiling it, or if there even is a reason. It reads like it's leading up to something, but...