Heiji ignored the question about whether he was a writer; he didn't want to nail down his cover story too much, after all. Besides, it wasn't as though Snake had told him much about his own job.

"Me, too," he said, getting a little sucked into Snake's story despite himself. "Lately I been reading about Morgellon's disease -- though most of the medical establishment dismisses it as delusional parasitosis. It's hard to nail down the real cause, since it's often present in people with complicating factors, like drug use. In at least one case, though, one of the sufferers ended up being the victim of mites."