For once, it wasn't Tarn's fault.

"Hi, Captain!" Granted, absurd good cheer was normal for Nautica, but given the circumstances, it didn't take Nightbeat to figure out that powerful painkillers were involved. She propped herself up on one elbow and waved at him. Then she remembered he'd asked a question, though it took her a second to also remember what that question had been.

"I got thrown into a wall." Not really a useful status report, but she was trying.