Laura starts walking without answering -- well, why not, she's not a chatty kid by any stretch of the imagination. She's heading to a lesser populated area -- nearly out of the Spatters, but also close to the fog, where average Baedalites won't go. That prickly feeling she gets in every one of her enhanced senses is annoying, but it doesn't bother her enough that she can't stand to be out here. Anyway, it keeps her alert.

"After the escape of Weapon X, the facility launched a new project intending to create a viable clone embryo. They used a DNA sample obtained during Weapon X's escape, but it was damaged and alterations were necessary. In the process, they removed the incomplete Y chromosome and doubled the X. A specimen was produced from that, surgically altered, and weaponized."

She pauses.

"They succeeded with me where they failed with you."