(abby glances down at her hands, slotting her fingers together as she speaks. cracking her knuckles, idly. her voice is detached, as if she's reciting something from memory.) It attacks the brain. Makes you hyper-aggressive, removes all logic and reason. Within a couple weeks it starts to take over your eyesight. You get– fungal growth, all over your skin.

If you make it a year without getting killed it starts to scar the face, and fully blinds you. You have to resort to echolocation, in order to get around.

(she glances up at mako, and shrugs. by way of explanation:) My dad was a doctor. He studied the infected for years.