Injury inducement

He woke a moment later.

"What happened?" he demanded.

"You must have gotten hit by one of those tranquilizer darts," I said. "It's time to go before they come to."

"Why is there so much blood on the ground?"

"You hit your nose; it bled like crazy," I said. Another touch to his arm gave him pain in his nose and made his nose look as though it had been damaged. He stumbled through a portal with me, and a moment later we were in a hotel room. My other body was just now finalizing the transaction for this specific room.

"How much did you have to drink?" I asked. "You've been blacking out. I practically had to drag you here."

"Didn't you say that I had to save the world or something?"

"Wow, hallucinating too," I said.

I implanted a memory of his having gotten a plane ticket for the next day.

***

Grim