Vijay became quiet. He hadn't expected that, in this day and age, such a mutation could happen. Because if it wasn't a mutation, then how else was he supposed to explain the behaviour of this sneaky little germ? From what Vinay said, the way Moroi's Fiend got triggered sounded a lot like how future germs like the Tuberculosis bacteria or the Epstein-Barr virus stayed hidden.
Its way of staying inside the body without being noticed reminded him of those germs that don't show symptoms or stay silent for a long time and are hard to catch. And when Vinay talked about its strange size, Vijay immediately thought of Prions, those protein-only germs that caused mad cow disease in his last life.
