Another day, another set of oddities. It was becoming a strange sort of routine. Tony was glad enough to bid the nurse goodbye and hear the door click shut behind her. The solitude would be short-lived, but he'd take those few minutes where he could get them.

He settled down to eat his dinner, another surprisingly decent meal. By that point, it would have been more startling to find the staff serving typical hospital fare. His thoughts lingered uneasily on the conversation with the young alien girl. Whose name, he realized, he'd never actually managed to get around to finding out. Well, there were always other days. Each one that passed made it seem less likely any of them would be escaping any time soon.