Raine frowned, concerned, when he suddenly looked sick. When he managed to recover, she asked, "Are you one of these Magypsies?" If so, she was sincerely tempted to ask to see that needle... "What's the connection between immortality and the needles?"

The revelation itself was nothing major, in her eyes; her only companion from home here was another type of immortal, and she'd met more than her share of them, by now.