"Right? Guy's a bag of doorknobs, and that's being kind. But he was doing editorials for a paper, so..." Maybe not exactly the same guy. Renee hopes.

"But your webs dissolve, right? It was just a little pain in the ass?" Just cuss, Pete, for crying out loud! She's the last person who'll judge you--and she's not going to go running to Tony to be all 'oooh you cussed', either. "You didn't wreck his car or anything, right?"

"Okay. Man, enhanced sounds so much nicer. Harder to throw slurs at you with that one, too." Renee couldn't help but make a face at that, even as she dissolved the knife. "It's kinda like racism where I'm from--'mutie' is an epithet and worse. I don't really wanna go into it though, you can probably guess." At least if he was as good a student in history as he was in science. 'Cuz he sure seemed smart.