Kurt's cheeks flush indigo, his shoulders rolling in a halfhearted shrug. "Maybe not all that," he teases, lips quirking higher. "But you're voice is certainly better than mine."

Said tail flickers to life behind him, dipping forward lazily over his shoulder. "Not at all. A lot of people have never seen someone like me before, so to be honest, I encourage questions." He shifts closer, reaches to gesture in a vague motion toward the tail, fangs still gleaming.

His face colors another shade, "That's quite the compliment, miss. I'm a mutant and before you think it's an insult, we've sort of. Adopted the word." He shrugs. "It doesn't have the effect you'd imagine it might."