“Their DNA scans as primarily human, but see here, every second or third sequence is canine. Da, I know how crazy it sounds Griggori. It's probably why the investigation faltered back in 2145.”

 

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            Griggori forced himself to look at the gory pictures on the screen again.

            "So both OO Negative and OO Positive are allergic to silver?"

            "Da," she confirmed.

            “With the bite marks on the other three OO Negative victims, if a teeth casting was done I'd bet it would match the two OO Positive victims.”

            “I'm sure you're right." She said.  “236 years ago Forensics tried to do an autopsy on the twelve OO Negative victims.  However, they were only successful with six of them because after seven days, the bodies abruptly decomposed.  All that was left was a type of biological ash."

            She hit another button on the screen so they were looking at an autopsy bench with a human-shaped pile of a reddish ash lying on top of it.

            “The rapid decomposition is astounding, da?” she remarked.

            Griggori blinked then he blinked again, “Is that ash from their flesh and bones?”

            “Da, both flesh and bones turned to ash," she verified.  “But look at the autopsy results of the three OO Positive victims.”

            After Julia hit another command on the touch-screen computer, Griggori was looking at the two men and one woman again.

            “They look completely normal," he shrugged.

            “Da, they LOOK normal, but do you see their amorphous cellular structure and their DNA make up?”  She changed the picture to show diagrams and medical results which left him lost.  “Their DNA scans as primarily human, but see here, every second or third sequence is canine.  Da, I know how crazy it sounds Griggori.  It's probably why the investigation faltered back in 2145.”

            He did a double-take at the data on the screen as she continued. 

            “Look at their bone density and the compact tissue that make up their muscles, let alone the abundant red and white blood cells.  These three OO Positive subjects would have been very strong with immune systems that could repel almost anything.  I wouldn't be surprised if they had accelerated healing, too.”

            “What are you saying, that they're super humans?” Griggori tried to joke.

            "But it doesn't explain why part of their DNA was canine," she said seriously.

            He leaned forward against the bench top that the computer was sitting on, as he stared thoughtfully at the touch-screen.  She recognized this look, he was piecing together the puzzle.  She smiled to herself knowing that he was about to have a revelation.