She started to answer, but she felt the nanos entering her body and that... was not to be. She closed her eyes, turning her mind inward and using her own flesh to destroy the invaders, then moved them down along her bloodstream into her hand, and out through the palm. She closed that hand around them before they could be seen. "I just need food and drink and rest, no more."

She looked to her, pulling her hand free of the other's arm. "I would show you something, distant sister," she said softly. And there it was, just that hint, just a touch of knowledge, teasing out the questions, the wonderings. What exactly did she know? How did she know it? What would she do that that knowledge. Fear... ah fear was a useful playing piece in any game.