His vision is clearing nicely now, only still shaky and flickery around the edges. He still has a few toes dipped into the past, but the vast majority of his mind is in the present again.

"I can do that," he says. "It helps me to come back from it, reminding myself of the present. We are in the arena -- the eighth arena I have been in. The gravity has been changing frequently, but it hasn't been a problem yet thus-far. We were trying to get out of this room, though I'm not sure how well that's going at the moment."