| [Oct. 31st, 2008|01:47 am] |
Chemicals and seafood. Metal. That would be the jellyfish toxin and the cadmium, no doubt. Genma was simultaneously deflated and pissed off at Aoshi. "You can smell that?" he moaned, frowning and sniffing at himself again. "But Aoshi said he couldn't smell it at all, and I know rats have way better senses of smell than humans. If that little bastard lied to me so he could get back to his doe..."
Tsume looked like she was considering whether or not she might start coughing up bloody shreds of lung. "It's not an inhalant," he assured her. "It mimics a stroke, it only works if you ingest it, and you have to get a good sized dose. Even if I had some on my skin and you licked me, that wouldn't be enough to hurt you. You'd have to down at least fifteen milliliters before you'd get anywhere close to a lethal range for a human your size. That's why I was working so hard to make it undetectable." He sighed heavily and hissed a breath out through his teeth. "Dammit, are you sure you're smelling fish?" |
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