I had no idea. [He'd never heard of werewolves doing this, on this ship or otherwise. He looks from her face to his hand again, and then after another beat looks back as he slowly lets it drop.]

Thank you. I'm truly grateful. But you don't have to keep doing that. I'm -- I've gotten very used to the pain. It's so minor comparatively, and I tend to force my way through these things anyway... [He tries to smile again, but can't. Not while they're talking about this. His transformation, his ruined body. Ruined life.]

I've been living with it for a year now, Miss Argent. Allison. I do the best with it I possibly can.

[And if it's never before occurred to her, on her own ship, that their Blight was something else once as well as someone, well. That was all a pretty big giveaway, wasn't it.]