"I've survived with them so far, so who knows? Maybe I'm just really lucky." A possibility, honestly. But he had grown up in a city where the air was toxic and the water poisonous, so perhaps a certain readiness to accept risk came with the territory.

He walked next to Jonathan, once more seeming amused more than anything when he watched him from the side. "Do I really make you angry, Jonny? I kind of like that. I like the idea of getting to you."