Linya, groggy from stun, notes one - no, two, hyposprays being applied to her person.

And Miles, reciting Macbeth.

Is she on the same -? What kind of drug?

She's definitely on synergine to wake her up, now that she's been tied to the chair safely. (Can she snap the ropes? Probably not, they're good synthetic stuff.) And the second one is -

She's immune, but not to the point of being a nonchemical robot. There is literature on what to expect if one is fast-penta'd. Futile, but not without trace. A subtle burning sensation, a little slipperiness in the mind.

And she's seen a non-haut on the stuff; there was a demo in one of her classes -

So she's supposed to free-associate, she supposes, and her captors probably don't know -

She chimes in with Miles's recitation, bewildered but not willing to let whoever's got them know.

"They met me in the day of success: and I have learned by the perfectest report, they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire to question them further, they made themselves air, into which they vanished."