"Roughly," she says. "I was responsible for such things on the Ninth, but detail requires closer examination and perhaps a pendulum." She does look more closely, though. "Scar tissue I was familiar with in your thalogram has been disturbed, and your blood is flush with toxins--stress, fatigue."

Hormones, too, but she doesn't need to mention that.

"Inedia, I believe? Your fat stores, such as they are, have been activated. Did they return you to seclusion? Or have you found another door?"