He smiled a bit at the Healer, getting to his feet and making his way back in the direction she gestured.
"Thanks for seeing me," he said, with a bit of an accent that nobody from Earth would be able to place. It was a bit lilting, soft, but very distinctive. Everyone on Pern would mark him immediately as being from Benden Weyr, but he was far from Pern.
"You've...never seen Threadscores before, have you? I should probably warn you before I take off my shirt. Thread...they're...creatures. That eat anything organic. So...if they touch your skin, well, you can imagine what that does."