"I don't feel normal." Melanie holds out her hands and peers at them, as if she half-expects them to have changed color or something, but everything looks as it should. "I'm not hungry, and I don't think I'm ill, but something's different."

She puts her hand to her stomach again, feeling the warmth radiating from her. Something gurgles inside her, and she jumps a little, but there's no accompanying rattle from her box, no tell-tale ache in her jaw.

"I think..." she looks up at James, brow furrowed. "Can the city change what we are?" It's made Newt a woman, and it's done things to his and James's magic before, but they were both still human through all of it.