The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Chapter 12, Page 21
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October 13th, 2014

Chapter 12, Page 21

Just a brief moment of payback on this page.  Girii thinks a bomb is dropping — there isn’t time to argue with someone as pig-headed (hah) as Enrique.

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Enrique: You can't tell me what to do!

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  1. Sonja says:
    October 13, 2014 at 2:11 am

    Oh yes – yes, she can!

  2. ML says:
    October 13, 2014 at 3:20 am

    I love the look of surprise on Enrigue’s face (the eyebrows).

  3. Moxie Man says:
    October 13, 2014 at 4:47 am

    Pig head forgot you should never threaten or strike a lady.

  4. Unmaker says:
    October 15, 2014 at 1:40 pm

    We now know what triggers the strength, but the source is still unknown, because according to her gene scan she has no genes for increased strength. I am betting she is a chimera like the slow-cows – somewhere inside her there is tissue that is not the same genes as the rest of her body and that tissue provides the strength. Unless a gene sample can reach that tissue it won’t find the cause of the strength.

  5. The Sidhekin says:
    October 16, 2014 at 12:01 am

    Unmaker, she’s second generation. While it’s not impossible that she’d be inheriting the alien tissue from her mother, it sounds messy and complicated.

    Moreover, we have Remus “speculating that [acetylcholine] contributes to her strength”, which suggests a simpler way: Genes for increased strength hitherto unknown to the Genocide Project.