She gives him a modest smile. "I can certainly try. I'm also helping to set up a research center in the Nexus with a mage friend of mine. I'll have a lab with equipment when it's built, I'll be able to run some actual tests then."

Before Jesse gets too deep into his description of the disease, she pulls out of her bag a small notebook and pen. The notebook is already nearly full; she hurriedly flips to a fresh sheet and starts to write some things down. "Does this disease have a name?" she asks, her pen rapidly moving across the page. "Any idea how it started?"

It's sad to hear that Jesse and his friends are outcasts on their world, but sort of understandable. "Um... I know you said that most of the victims want to... ah, bite others, after they die." She pauses, then asks delicately, "Is that also a compulsion for the ones who retain their intelligence and personality?"