"Not big on easing a person into things, are you?" he asked as he tried to absorb the information dump.

Naturally he wanted to balk, protest that she was pulling his leg, that this test was ridiculous or whatever the hell this was. But having seen the city, the glasses, what she had just used to contain the man and what the man himself had used... well, it was hard to argue with so much visual evidence. He definitely hadn't gone to sleep here, and he was a fairly light sleeper these days.

"So, what, we're just guniea pigs then?"