Kallie hadn't told anyone else about the purple lightning; aside from the man who had tried to attack her - who was sure to have been way too out of it to remember after the fact anyway - Lyall was the first person to see that what had accompanied the number in her head wasn't just another example of an unwanted memory, physical change, or... a new book or whatever.

"You seem really... calm about this," she said, stiffly shifting her weight. She wanted to deny that the so-called lightning bolt wasn't her fault, but realized too that the effort wasn't worth it and wouldn't be believed. At best she'd just be opening a road of misinformation if Lyall then spread that the mutated creatures could randomly explode.

She was still very much disconcerted, however. The part about him being able to smell like a dog would have been interesting, if not for the immediate opinion that formed in her pointing out that that wasn't quite...

... Well, that supernatural.