"No, I’m afraid you need to spend a little awake time now. You’ve got some work to do. At the moment, the system is compensating for a transient ischaemic attack. That’s a sort of almost-stroke, the key difference being that word ‘transient,’ which is more an article of faith in this instance than an absolute diagnosis. We’ve routed around it for you, and there’s now a clever little device relaying information between two living parts of your brain, but it needs you to do plenty of thinking, and we’ve found it’s better if you’re awake. Later, if we’re fortunate, we can repair the damage and coax the original tissue back into its original role."