Arguably, Deunan had started nuts, following in her father's footsteps, but that was hardly relevant to the fact that Jubilee was making no sense. Deunan scrubbed at her face, which was a mistake, because it redistributed the slime in an extremely unpleasant fashion. "Oh gross.

"I guess it's theoretically possible," she conceded. Briareos had mentioned something about it, but all his books on physics rapidly descended into equations written in Sanskrit, and Deunan had gotten off the math bus somewhere around trigonometry and never looked back. "It's at least an explanation."