Could be that as well, [William agrees. A beat.] Someone should probably see to Sirius' ear, [he adds, brow furrowing, but he makes himself move on. Somebody probably did. He will do it later. Kate's hand thing is pretty serious also.

Again, he isn't weird about touching them. While the presence or absence of nanites would be interesting, intervention is more his bag than anything, so he sets down the scanner and closes his hands gently around the floppy dead fish hunks o' Kate she has on the table for him.] Did it start at the same time as the rest of the symptoms last month? [he asks. He's listening for her answer, but he's concentrating too.

Seeing if his gift can't kindle something in the minute functions of her cells.] Did it stop spreading when the evil robots was taken out?