"The exams definitely felt real," Ravi guarantees, because he'd incised into them and examined the bodies, even testing the organs as much as he could to look for causes of death. Could he have been hallucinating all of that? It seems impossible, but at the same time, this place does like to trick them.

He runs a hand through his hair, sweat and dirt all over his face. "It's too early in the morning for that sort of existential breakdown," he insists. "Why fake their death?"