[since it's question hour, vi has one of her own. it's half-snorted, already implies that whatever this is is bullshit.]

Whose research?

[she huffs, finally standing still, because fine. maybe answering will get this over with.]

Yeah, yeah, of course I wouldn't know. What would someone like me know? I barely know to pay attention. Which I did, by the way. And no I was pretty much never sick as a kid. I'm hardly ever ill. Drank forty shots at a bar and I was just fine. [that's a boldfaced lie, but she was not ...poisoned by the alcohol in any way that mattered.]

Who are you calling a child, nosy?

[because namecalling is ...super adult.]