"I don't need sleep. Just take the pressure off some old incisions."

He tilted the bed back to a 45 degree angle and watched the boy closely. He was emotionally invested. Incredibly emotionally invested. His former self must have been an idiot to be unaware of it, therefore he almost certainly was but had chosen to simply let it pass unmentioned.

"My head is, at present, attached and behaving within normal parameters."