"Sounds like it runs in the family," says Gordon. "Probably why so many of them survived. One's an accident, two's dumb luck, three or more and there's some kind of exceptionally dangerous talent in the family tree."

"Is that why it's just you and Eleanor, but Shephard's got Dan and Janet and his mother still around?"

"Wouldn't surprise me," says Gordon, who no longer has to have any kind of stake in being thought some kind of terrifying destroyer all the way down to the genetic level.