"Sorry. I'm bad at being smoke-and-mirrors about this stuff." He'd disobeyed direct orders to show off his skills and offer the world some transparency regarding Providence's methods. It was rather hard to hold back now.

"I've got this-- unless-- do you know where the towels are?" And when she went to retrieve one, he continued. "EVO. Stands for 'Exponentially Variegated Organism.' Doc Holiday coined it. People used to refer to them as 'spoiled meat' but that wasn't really scientific enough to stick after I started bringing people back to normal."