[She didn't think about Shift Hunters. That's probably a bad sign. Mia listens without motion or comment, and when Law is finished, shakes her head.]

I know how these people died, but what are the chances you - any of us - were exposed to some kind of illness that begins this way? [She wants it to be connected to these terrible piles of the dead. Not to whatever presence that was, out there, in the boiling darkness beyond time and death.

But if it's sickness, she can't feel it.

And she only knows one such disease.]