"Oh yeah. Though our intern's been trying the puppy-dog eyes routine on him, and it's softening him up fast."

Yunlan takes a long breath of his own as Steve finishes cleaning up his arm, letting just a little of the tension ebb out of his posture.

"Best I can figure is, it's some kind of infection, maybe. I guess about all I can do is keep it cleaned up and hope there's somebody with healing powers around here."