DOOMS. Call 'em... powers, I guess. There's this stuff in the air, chiralium. Most people are highly allergic to it. Some people like me have more of an immunity, get abilities of a sort. The trade-off is apocalyptic nightmares. Had those my entire life.

[He sighs. He doesn't really like talking about it, because people are always asking him about this, even back home.]

BTs. Beached thing. The stranded dead. People can't touch 'em, causes these things called voidouts that annihilate everything within miles. All it takes is one, and a city of sixty thousand people gets wiped out.