"Oh. Oh, good." The shaking was the worst of watching it, at least now that her eyes weren't flared open in agony. "I...I shouldn't have snapped at you, I apologize, and thank you, for helping us." If the charcoal and whatever the woman was giving Nida to stop the spasms worked the way she said it would...

Well, as alarming as her methods were, diplomacy was clearly called for here.