"Dax…" Trevor pinched the bridge of his nose.
It was not an especially loud warning.
That made it more effective.
Dax, however, had already committed himself to the sentence and was not a man inclined to retrieve blades once thrown. He leaned back in his chair with all the easy insolence of someone who knew perfectly well he had just crossed a line and was now deciding whether the consequences would entertain him.
"Oh, that's interesting," Lucas said, voice calm enough to be immediately dangerous. "You've decided the best defense for partial knowledge of a biologically significant anomaly is to insult the parents who were deliberately kept outside the capital where it mattered."
Dax's smile did not improve. "I've decided that if I'm being accused of negligence over incomplete information, I'm allowed to note that the entire situation was apparently built on everyone misjudging the scale at once."
