"Oh, I know, I've read them all. And you'd be surprised, a good number of them are very fair. That's why I'm sure you have the capacity to be reasonable enough to listen."

Julian is something of an armchair historian, when it comes to this particular subject. He's read literally every text he could get his hands on, about the Eugenics Wars, about genetic engineering, about anything and everything that might even be tangentially related. It was the first subject he'd studied while being well and truly aware of what he was capable of--not exactly light reading, and it had made him an even more difficult teenager to deal with than normal, he was sure.

Anyway, he's sure that it will come out sooner rather than later. And maybe he'll be exposed as well, when Doctor McCoy inevitably finds out who precisely had just arrived.

Planning on the fly had never truly been his strong suit. Lord. What was he thinking?