"No," he said immediately, and then frowned, searching his mind for anything new, anything intrusive. He found nothing except the niggling sensation that he was missing something. "I can't be. And it wouldn't be regaining, anyway, because they're not--"

He checked himself, glancing up toward the edges of the ceiling with a scowl, searching for the cameras he couldn't see but suspected were there. "I can't be," he murmured, for once at a loss and feeling a tendril of fear.