[ Severus notices Erik's demeanor, but chooses to ignore it. Politeness, maybe. Both plates go on the island in the kitchen around which there are several stools. If Erik doesn't want to eat anything he doesn't have to, but it's there. (A charm, meanwhile, stows the rest of it.) ]

The truth is that there is something in this ship. [ Lowly, in his usual tone, but surely. ] They all saw it. Shepard and Javik remembered it. And it has punished them all by degrees.