It was as he'd suspected, then. Barnaby's calm expression didn't falter as the girl motioned at her rash.

"The symptoms have persisted," he quietly answered. The severity of a lot of them had lessened in the wake of his transformation, but that was hardly any consolation, nor was it something he wanted to bring up right off the bat. "My current condition isn't related to the illness, though. I'm still recovering from the injuries I took a couple of nights ago."

Barnaby had a hard time believing that she was asking after him simply for the sake of checking up on him. Considering the fact that she knew what his X-Ray would reveal, he didn't blame her for trying to piece more things together. "And yourself?" he asked, turning the question back onto her.