“Silver? Like the metal?” The shiny one. The one that means second place. The one coins used to be made from. The one which, when used to make a bullet, has a particular folkloric significance I don’t want to think about after Nick’s talk about monsters.

“Yes. After we recovered the bullet, we saw something was off about it. It was too glossy, and the metal was too soft. We asked our lab people what they thought of it, and silver was their best guess. We did a very ...