Right, and... is it latex? I don't think it's latex now that I'm .... picturing

[uh]

Spandex. Spandex was the word I meant.

[no it wasn't, he knows his fabrics. spandex doesn't smell like anything.]

Christian Bale was in Little Women, wasn't he?

[He barely has time to nod and consider being gagged when the second part of that thought comes barreling past America's lips]

...I don't doubt you know how, I think all of our kind is adept at something like that, but -- in a safe manner!? I--I mean I know we heal more easily of course but I don't want to end up explaining anything to a doctor...!