A smile like that of a teacher whose student has grasped a difficult lesson on the first go.

"That is a wise answer," he says, sitting back with his own cup. "For you must be both - at times the one who judges and at times the one who submits to being judged."

There is steel in this boy. Plain to anyone with eyes to see. But how did it develop? Hell, how was a child with such power born on 21st century Earth in the first place?