When the nurse had come in, he’d imagined that he must be aboard their exploration ship, perhaps taken there as the only way they could save him after he had tackled the girl.  To avoid an international—interstellar?—incident, they couldn’t stop her, so they had no choice but to grab him.  It was odd that he was injured—it felt like his hair and beard were gone, although the hair on the rest of his body had mostly remained—and it was odd that his clothes were missing.  