He reaches up and rubs his head with the towel. It's only a little bit helpful.

"I'm sure that I remember it, but I'm not sure it's correct... that it ever really happened.

"There was also the woman who was trapped in the halls, in the heat... she thought there was a manticore in the walls that was following her. It could appear at will. In some ways, that part of it seemed more like I was seeing her nightmares."

Smiley said they're still here, he thinks. What if it was her nightmares, as they were happening? I've speculated about the possibility of other gravity couches somewhere in the ship, and we've certainly found them in the past... what if Lotte is out there now? He doesn't voice these ideas to Firo yet.

"Was there any communication from Smiley in the past month?"