"There's no way to know, until it happens. It might be bad, or it might just affect my ability to heal. But I am a doctor--a few of our genetic researchers, which might help. I know the experiments they were doing with our drug, how they refined and developed it. I don't have Dr. Tenenbaum, the lead researcher on it; she's still alive. She had a cure for the younger girls, could remove their slugs safely and return them to normal, but her cure wouldn't work on me."

Her regurgitation skills are apparently well-honed; she brings up the equivalent of a few spoonfuls of a viscous, glowing red liquid, remarkably discreetly.

"Here. Don't inject anyone with this."