[He leans over to pour them both out a glass.]

Gross ain't even half way it. [He frowns.] By itself, sure, it'd be gross as all hell - but it might have been containable. By itself, it's just - hell, I don't know what it is. An organism? A substance? The point it, by itself it seems to just grow the way a fungus would - direct itself toward energy, drag in what it can on the way. But it ain't just by itself. Someone found some, and wanted to know what it did.

[He looked up to meet Apollo's eyes grimly.]

Wanted to know how to turn it into a weapon.