"Nope. Been tested and everything." This was, as point of fact, true, at least in his case there was no X-Gene present, he didn't know about the rest of the Flock, as he hadn't had extensive contact with them in recent years, something to keep them all safe.

"And I stand by what I said, some crows do, there's a pair of them near my building that do." He shrugged, scratching the back of his neck before squinting skyward -not that he could see anything there, it was just habit- as if he were thinking over encounters with the pair, "Honestly I'm pretty sure they're mocking me, but they're definitely saying it, not just crowing."