“After the announcements?” Anise’s eyes were wide. She’d been wearing gloves at the time, and there was Luke to worry about… If the same thing happened to her, she wouldn’t have noticed. “Are you sure?” If the rash was connected to the intercom, there was a good chance that it really was one of the “signs” the Head Doctor had been talking about. Which would mean that Anise was really…

A momentary distraction came in the form of her roommate nodding to her as she passed by. Trying not to let her face betray her fears, Anise simply nodded back at Utena, then returned her attention to Brook.

“...What do you mean, ‘a long time since you could get itchy’?” she asked after a moment of thought. While the issue of the rash itself was more important, Anise wanted some time to wrap her head around the information she had before getting too deep into it. And besides, that was a really weird thing to say. Didn’t everyone get itchy sometimes?