Carver continued laughing as the bickering started back up from his earlier manipulations of the trio, but suddeny stopped and glared at Jack’s mistake and self-correction. “Hey! Barrel [i]just said[/i] that [i]I’m[/i] the one who got a hold of the stuff. I managed to play a trick on four people [i]at once[/i]! Why am I still only a footnote on [i]my own prank[/i]?”

“Make that [i]five[/i] people, Carver,” Finkelstein snapped. “Your little trick is going to make this process [i]much[/i] longer and more difficult young lady! Do you have [i]any idea[/i] how much painstaking work I put into this body? Is any of my effort ever appreciated? Of course not! And for all I know, you did this [i]solely[/i] as an excuse to get your hooligan friends access to destroy my precious experiments!”