"I'm awake!" he protests...in the fashion of all people caught falling asleep when they're not supposed to be.

The water, however, helps. Mike shakes his head a couple of times in an effort to clear out the newly arrived cobwebs.

The wound itself isn't too bad on the infection front, considering what he's had on hand to treat it. Outwardly it's ugly, inwardly there may have been some tendon damage as the slash goes clear through the heavy muscle of his forearm.

"I zigged when I should have zagged, and got clipped by a katana. We got ambushed during a training run."