Adams screams died down as the doctor injected him. [b]"Mate, watcha doin' with that? I though ya' already took some blo-"[/b] His speech slowed down as he slumped closer to the floor, passing out mid-word on top of Adam's head, his 'tail' (or doodle) twitching slightly, like a snake. What the doctor may have been able to notice behind the bloody wound was that it began to close up. He wouldn't have seen it, but the section of spine the wraith destroyed was also repairing itself. 

The entire time, right up to being sedated, Adam kept wondering, [i]what have I done to deserve this?[/i]