"Not...?" Realization dawns on him rather like a bucket of cold water to the face, an unpleasant and sobering shock. The reason Illyan is here, now, is so he can catch Miles post-surgery in a state of maximum drugged, pained confusion, as a substitute for the fast-penta to which Miles has a known idiosyncratic reaction. "Fuck you, Simon! Why not break out the lead-lined rubber hoses, while you're at it!"