Cruel doctors? That was nothing new, though being at the mercy of such was hardly reassuring. Armand hadn't met any yet, he said, so perhaps that delight might be postponed until after Mark figured out where (and when, apparently) they were, and how one got home. Understanding time travel, that should only take a few years.

Kareen... He felt lonely.

"The delusion that we are not supposed to be in this place or time," Mark echoed with faintly grim humor. If Armand was crazy, it seemed to be the catching kind, mass hysteria. Did Mark and his gang count as a 'mass'? No, the evidence for what Armand said was already impressive, just from looking around at the other patients and the strange and primitive facilities. This wasn't a delusion.