Dilan took every single possible precaution before he backed out and did his own shower-down, even more obsessively than usual. A good half-hour later he strides out, "I have no idea why that happened, but Aya? Some of those cells were glowing, and that glow got more intense when you came in. They were dying, but they tried to come back when you were there."

He's quiet, for a moment, "I don't know what she is, but I think she might not be as crazy as we want her to be."