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"You're saying that you held up the baby Komodo dragon so that it could bite Melanie?" George took a deep breath before answering, "Yes." "And you're also saying that she asked you to do it? She asked for you to facilitate the biting?" Every single person on the panel (none of whom George had ever seen before) seemed to be staring in a kind of horrified disbelief. "Yes," he answered directly. "Melanie selected the monitor lizard herself after saying ... uh ... excuse my language, please ... 'fuck lab safety, I want superpowers' and then it was game on." They stared at him in silence, and George panicked. "I told her, though - I told her that we had zero guarantee that she would actually get powers (like Spiderman) and we wouldn't know what they were. It was risky. What if she, like, ended up prowling the sidewalks licking poison onto people, y'know?" Someone on the panel dropped their pen to the floor, but made no effort to pick it up.