"Sonic cleaning works pretty well, but it takes time, and doesn't often work with everything in every substance," she says. "Like these, they don't react so hot to sonic cleaning."

When Billy lets drop that they're on an actual starship, and are actually stranded, Noriko just stops and blinks. "Um." Oddly, this is not the first time she's heard of such a thing happening. She's been the cause of something similar herself, though she's pretty sure she didn't do it this time.

"Well. It's...yeah," she sighs.