Jude had been similarly hovering: he didn't like to get near the front of the meetings, especially after the long day of reporting in on the specimen room. Lucky for him, he hadn't lost or been asked to steal anything, so he had nothing much to add. Just one more tick of a box, another weird thing about the place.

He trusts Mark and the others to handle it, somehow, and has mostly been scanning the space for Bodhi and the dog, worried some proximity to Kira and his letter would rub off in some way.

Instead, a woman's voice pulls his attention to the side, and he forgets the meeting as he takes in the state of her. "What happened to you," he asks, arms crossed but his fingers shifting to open their grip on his upper arms, in case they're somehow needed: "Are you alright?"