"So melodramatic," mutters the CMO, but it's hard to tell if he's talking about Daryl or the haut. Both, perhaps. The other ghem med techs still look scandalized, but the Colonel mostly looks faintly exasperated. "The most invasive thing we'll do is a blood sample. You do know that the rest of our equipment is noninvasive, don't you?"

He gestures with a pinched mouth at the scanners, some mounted, some handheld, in the room. "Whatever it is you're paranoid about, you're overreacting. We just needed you to hold still -- and stop accosting our med techs."