Ves could no longer keep track of the ongoing surgical procedures anymore.
He had no idea whether the doctors had already begun to implant the lesser Arcis organ.
This was the most risky and exotic phasewater organ out of the set. The surgeons wanted to save it for last because it had a greater chance of causing incidents than the other phasewater organs.
Ves should have tried to pay close attention to this process, but his connection to reality had diminished to such an extent that he had no idea what was going on anymore!
If everything went according to plan, then the surgeons should have judged that Ves was no longer in a good condition to integrate a new phasewater organ.
However, he did not get the sense that the session had come to an end. His body may have projected enough apparent stability that the surgeons figured that nothing was amiss.
