They've left him alone in his cell.
He can't really be said to be lucid but he has very acute instincts for when there's someone and when he's alone - it's the last of his senses to depart him - and he's alone.
And then suddenly he isn't.
We've been doing half-rations because we can't grow our own food yet. Now that there's a Sun things should get better.
Hey. Slow progress, but progress; also some more experiments, a couple interesting details worked out but nothing especially useful.