"That’s the guy who isolated the Bruckner-Langer HMHVV strain," he gloated. "Says it isn’t totally impossible for a metahuman to have the strain and somehow survive. It’s never been known, but theoretically it’s just possible. It would depend on, um, compensatory RNA-stabilizing polygenes and something to do with the C5-cascade system in immunology." Michael, for once, looked as if he wasn’t entirely sure that he’d learned something properly. To Serrin, it was almost a relief.