He ponders possible answers for a moment. He will not lie to the boy, but how much of the truth should he tell?

"For the most part, it has been the 'long painful pressures of time', as I said before. However, a very long time ago there was...interference. Another race took some humans and altered them."

He looks toward the window. Toward the destruction.

"The first certifiable telepaths were born not half a century later."