Soma inclined her head slightly. Intellectually, she knew it was pointless to feel survivor's guilt about something like this, but she couldn't help but feel like there was something she could have done about it. Some advice she could have given Sora before he'd gone and done the same, even if she and Lingormr had mostly been blindly fumbling about.

"It worked for me," she said quietly. "Lingormr found a device in my stomach like we expected, and once he took it out, my symptoms started receding almost immediately."

She shouldn't have felt like she needed to justify that statement with anything, either, but she did. "I hadn't transformed at all, though. Sora had. I don't know if it was because the disease had progressed, or..."