She gave a little sigh, and took a long swallow from her glass. "It's a bit of a ... long story," she started with, then paused, to drain her glass, and refill it. "It's less 'on the run' and more 'working with someone who finances my designs'. It gets a bit technical, but the gist of it is that I am studying the biological triggers that were created in the wake of magic, and how to... adjust them. Essentially, I am attempting to determine what makes the various races, which<em>were</em>human a century ago, no longer human, and how that can be changed. There is a lot of... divided opinion on the topic, and I do not like having firebombs thrown through the windows of my laboratory."