"Do you know what day it is in another language?"

"Ristak."

"Is that the language or the language's word for this date?"

Lorn holds up two fingers.

"I don't know what that means. I can put you down as not knowing what the date is. Do you know where you are?"

(The other paramedic brings over portable diagnostic equipment to figure out Lornell's vitals situation.)

"Two options, the two one: a word for this date?  Loza."

What are they going to try to do to Lorn with the diagnostic equipment.

They have a blood pressure cuff and a pulse oximeter and a light to shine into his eyes and an ear thermometer.

. . . . Okay, Lornell will bemusedly cooperate with this.  Eyes and ears are fine, pulse is very slightly elevated, blood pressure's pretty much normal.

They usher him into the ambulance and close it up and drive him hospitalward.

Lornell does not like this cart but okay, sure, fine.

The ride is very short. They try him on other tests of cognitive function - can he repeat digits back to them forward and backward?

Yep, easily.

Well, they're going to check him into the hospital anyway. Since he doesn't know what day it is, what is the last day he remembers? Does he need an interpreter for whatever other language he speaks, what was it again?

"Cretari.  There is not forgot-space in me!  - Or, at times I sleep?  Until four days past, when I sleep, there is not forgot-space in me."

"You haven't slept in four days?"

"Correct."

Well in that case they're going to give him a theanine and put him in a dark soundproofed room and firmly instruct him to SLEEP.

"No??  No thank you?"

"It is VERY important that you sleep," says an orderly very seriously. "It's important to sleep every day. If you're having problems it's very likely this is related to not sleeping. If there is something in this room that would stop you from sleeping we can probably change it, but you really, really have to sleep."

". . . No.  I - obtained sleep?  Not far past.  No one here wants obtained-from, fine okay, I sleep here.  Later.  I so so so so so sad if I sleep now, and leave instead."

"I STRONGLY advise you to get some sleep as soon as you possibly can, but if this isn't a sleepable place for you, we're not going to insist that you do it here. But I don't think you can get better until you sleep. If you try to operate a nyoom without having slept in four days that's against the law. Do you understand?"

"What is a nyoom."

"A vehicle that has a motor."

"What is a motor?"

"...you REALLY need sleep. Where are you going to sleep?"