Now the dragon dust mine out in the mountains consists of a old gold working that
had been dug into a long buried asteroid.
In the 1950's scientists had exploded a nuclear warhead in there.
The Fourty had discovered that the radioactive rock from that old working,when ground to a powder and combined
with two other necessary ingredients,adrenalin and a certain kind of blood
plasma,reacted in a way that transformed the victim into some
primeivil reptile creature,a dragon.
And the beating the Fourty's enforcer had given Margarets face,as well as
the blood plasma the unemployed waitress had gotten at the hospital that treated her,meant
the adrenaline and the plasma were already coursing in her veins when the
Zodiac's 'dragon came over with the third ingredient hidden in her purse,the radioactive dragon dust,..