She puts her hand over her face again, then strings her fingers together, steadying herself. Okay, yes, this is a pretty huge failure on her part. She must have made a serious scientific error somewhere along the line. But let's figure out how big that error was, and then instead of freaking out, let's find a way to fix it. That's what she does.

Has she really made a mistake? Is this what making mistakes feels like? She just doesn't make mistakes this big, at least not factual ones.

Regardless. It looks like -- what's that saying? -- there really is a first time for everything.

"Describe to me the symptoms," she says, very businesslike, very doctorlike. "No -- no, I will see him. Is he still -- to live at your apartment?"

Wow she needs to calm down and words properly. But she... doesn't fuck up. She tells other people when they're fucking up. She especially doesn't fuck up when the stakes are as high as they are here.