It was, Soma thought grimly, a sign of how ill she felt when she couldn't even sense someone coming up from behind her. She looked up at the sound of the unfamiliar voice. Then she kept looking up, because the stranger was...tall. Very tall.

And new, from the sound of it. Soma pushed herself off the wall with a grunt. "I'm fine," she said, despite all evidence to the contrary. "It's probably not contagious." Then, because the last thing she wanted was more attention directed at her glaring weakness, "You said you just woke up here?"