Cosima is quite certain the world she comes from doesn't have a corner on bigotry. She wonders if she wants to know what Thedas' cautionary tales are, just yet. (So far, no one seems to have bated an eye at her confession on the network that she romantically prefers women; she isn't sure if this is because it's common here or because rifters are so odd that nothing they do is worth remarking on.)

"Observation a lot, yeah. We have very powerful ways to magnify things, so we can observer stuff we wouldn't otherwise be able to see. A lot of it has to do with genes, which are sort of the blueprints for a new organism that come from your parents. Some things about you are there before you're even born, but lots of them come from your environment and your experiences. It's sometimes hard to tell which is which just by looking. And sometimes it's a mix, like... how tall you are comes partly from genes, but also has to do with how well-fed you are in childhood."