"He surprised me too," she admitted. "Showed up on my radar when the two of them were selling their sleeping draughts the other day, so apparently he's actually pretty damned good at this. There might be a few more, but for the moment they're the two I know."

She kept pace with him, and for all intents and purposes she looked even less like a doctor or research assistant. In truth, it was debatable whether or not she even owned formal clothes. She seemed to perpetually prefer denim and t-shirts or similar casual garb, at least now that she wasn't at the clinic. At best, she could manage slacks and a blouse. It definitely kept the image that they weren't here for medical business up.