Here was the fun part. Trying to piece together an answer without looking any crazier than he had the night before. He probably could just start at the beginning. With a little luck, maybe Hikaru would ...

"The night before last, some of this place's whitecoats came and grabbed me from my room. I woke up strapped down to a lab table where this lunatic doctor put something into my bloodstream." He rolled his sleeve up to show him the mark from the injection.

Looking back up at Hikaru finally, Kyon sighed. "I haven't been the same, since."