"No magic here. Used to be that people could do shit like that - powers and everything? Now it's just random. Most of us don't have anything like that," Jax says. "But sometimes you get stuck with something you don't want. Just wake up one day and you're shooting fire out of your fingertips or shit like that. Makes no sense."

He shifts a little in the water and meets her gaze with his own. "Nobody has figured out anything about this place. Nobody knows why it is the way it is."