"To be sure. Though I wonder just how that idea became so widely spread. And to whose benefit. Listen, Hans. I love Wellspring. He’s a friend , and I remember the cold. But you have to realize just what an anomaly he is. He’s not one of us. He wasn’t even born in space." He looked at me narrowly, but I took no offense at his use of the term born . It was a deadly insult against Shapers, but I considered myself a Polycarbon first and Cicada second, with Shaperism a distant third.