[It's a good thing Nine knows how to handle his own cabin members, and it's something Lenka does notice and file away even as he gives them a little space to do the freakout-and-pinch routine (not that he quite knows it's a routine yet, but it's the principle of the thing).

In the meantime, he's... trying to process the rest of Chuuta's one-sided yelling and-- and it makes sense. It just makes a horrible sort of sense.]

... The same as Soma. It spreads, probably through the bloodstream.

[One hand comes up reflexively to grip at his right arm, obscured by the glove, but the knuckles are white and he ignores it.]

The mosquitoes...