Max  couldn't blink. Couldn't move. Couldn't articulate.<br/><br/>"Hrrrggghhhhhh."<br/><br/>He tried to sound reassuring. He wasn't sure if it suceeded. Instead he did the only thing that he could do. Lay there. This was a feature he hadn't been aware of. His mind having nothing better to do began to work. Some kind of paralytic on the lips. It didn't effect her. What she'd just said. Then it occurred to him.<br/><br/>For months figures around the globe had been dying. Within five years of acquiring one of the companies synthetics. He began doing the math. All of the deaths looked like natural causes. Each was not outside the realm of possibility considering the medical records he had dug up.<br/><br/>The reporter in him was now fully curious. If only he could move.  It meant that the corporation was assassinating world leaders. But why? What did they have to gain? Was this a "I don't want the world, I just want your half" thing? He wondered what else they'd buried in Cara's genetic code. He knew about her ability to change. Hair and eye color. Skin tone. They were all programmed to do that. It took a couple of days for their DNA to resequence but it could be done. She could be whatever she wanted to be genetically at this point. Usually they could only do it once.<br/><br/>Max wondered if it was possible for her to do it more. Then something else occurred to him. He was Maxamillion Wright. There was a price on his head. Max wasn't even his real name. Was this an attempt to draw him out? It was possible. The question was thus:  was this about him. Or someone else.<br/><br/>The fact that she wasn't killing him or contacting Noram police or a government line to have him black bagged was telling too. He resolved in that moment. She was safe with his secrets. She was safe with him. The two of them against the world. He'd take those odds.<br/><br/>His fixed staring eyes on hers he tried to make the next sound as comforting trusting and caring as possible.  He wanted it to convey he cared.<br/><br/><br/>"Hhhhhrrrrrgghhhh."