It's not as if I feel like I need to keep it a secret. After all, this ship is full of different types of people from different worlds. They have no reason to hide who they are, so why should I?

Besides, admitting to it also answers the question of why someone would ever consider someone that would never pass for old enough to buy their own fireworks for a positions such as my own. I was turned when I was 17, but that was about 10 years ago.