Ordinarily Ray might press on with the discussion, but hearing that it'd already been discussed multiple times let him breathe a little easier. Probably everyone else had covered all the grounds he would've done, and most likely they'd done it a little better.

"I don't know, Naraht," he said doubtfully. "New York City is famous for its chemical pollutants. There was probably something in the rock or the goo or something that might be giving you more-"

He stopped. An image had flashed across his mind, one he would spend a long time trying to erase.

"Out of curiosity, what do normal Horta excreta look like?" he asked.