"Like how she was moving all wrong when she ran away?" Lyall guessed, frowning at the door in further concern. "I don't know what that could... mean." The thought of vermini infecting a person in any kind of subtle fashion like that hadn't occurred to him, so he could only guess that maybe she had become one of them in a rather uncomfortable way and had found him on the network.

"Maybe I should call her sooner than later," he commented.