"No redheads. The closest I've seen is the royal family, who have chestnut hair, but that colour is nowhere near as brigt a colour as yours."

She shrugs at his mystery. "Perhaps the forces that created humans were all born before the universe fragmented. So little is known about The Mercy on Callirhoe, except that when it passes into a species it blesses them with sentience and raises them onto two legs."