It is a preferable question to the manner they keep bracing themself for; queries as to the tint of their skin and the reason they cover their face, or why they cannot speak or why their blood is the bright pink hue it is, or why they cannot seem to stop coughing it up when the days and nights are truly untenable.

Do you need to drink water? It is innocent enough.

i do
purity of water unknown

you?