Hey Opal, where did your passion for toxicology begin? Or is it always something you've been particularly interested in?
"I didn't know the word for it yet, but it was a passion sparked pretty young in me. Say.. 5 sweeps maybe? I knew I was dangerous, I knew that being with my lusus and then gettin' up close and personal with anyone else followed in death. I didn't connect it to the scales shed from her wings for another sweep. Like, there was a reason I had grown up so.. isolated. I don't even think my lusus had planned for what growing up with it would mean and how it would um. Change me? I think she expected me to die. I'm something of a happy accident."
"I was a lonely kid and I wanted to find a cure because I wanted real friends. As I grew older I got real good at working with various toxins and breaking them down, learning how to neutralize them, improve them, even-"
"Still haven't found anything successful in neutralizing the effects of my lusus' scales and my blood, though. Real shame."