"Oh, thanks," Ratchet says, but his eyes light like he's trying not to laugh. "I needed something else to be paranoid about, that's very helpful. Though if contagion was a serious concern I think they wouldn't have brought us in in the first place, or they'd be keeping us under more careful quarantine. I haven't seen a hazmat suit yet, for all the medical equipment they have stashed in here."

He looks around, his mouth twisting wryly. "Maybe they're the sort of outfit who just doesn't execute random noncombatants for no reason," he says, though he doesn't sound particularly optimistic.