Fancy tricks. With the pool cue, I take it?

[ Marta nods. She understands! She doubts she'd be good at it, but at least she gets the rules of the game now.

Onward, then, to the other point of conversation: ]

Is there some sort of touch-based contagion ongoing?

[ Marta asks, trying to be offhand about it, eyes still on the pool table, but her hands give her away. She twists her fingers together and then releases them, before doing the same thing again. ]

Something I should be worried about? Being. Not from here.