"That sounds just like Sharky." A little wistful because he misses him so damn much, and right now has no idea if he'll ever get him back.

"Ketamine is for uh.. Like surgery? It's a sedative and they mix it with something else to knock you out so you don't feel it. Bliss the cult cooked up, their chemist, Fenney, he made it for them specifically do do their creepy brainwashing shit. Like it's geared to that."

He flexes his fingers and looks down at his hands, wanting to look at anything that isn't another person right now. "Sorta. Kinda numbed it more so. Well when I'm like this and I'm uhm.. me. There's a... state I can get into where I don't feel pain at all, but I'm also not me anymore and I'll just attack everything so I don't even get the benefit of the whole pain immunity thing. Well sorta, I mean you could stab me right now and I might not react, but it'll hurt eventually."