“Mr. Maximum!” Palamedes is in fine form, and he offers Max a brilliant smile when the man comes over to investigate. “I’ve been studying the biological and genetic changes, or lack thereof, resulting from our time as passengers on the Serena Eterna. My initial experiments focused on the affects of death and resurrection experienced before or while aboard ship, though I’ve expanded my scope of late, with interesting results.”

Palamedes definitely wants Max to ask him about those results.