After a time, the door opened to admit a team of mixed orderlies and nurses. They brought with them a rolling stretcher on which lay an unconscious "patient" with black hair gone to white and gray at the temples and golden brown skin. They moved him to the bed and strapped him firmly into it with restraints at wrists and ankles, and then departed with digusted shakes of their heads, locking the door once more.

The man stayed apparently deeply in his drugged unconciousness, but moved restlessly against his restraints, sometimes almost growling in sleepy frustration.