"I am, more than a little. They warned us when we signed up for implantation that it would be traumatic to lose them but I didn't think..." He shrugs. "I only know one guy who had his reject, and he was in psych for a week before I left the organization. I don't know what happened to him." Meaning he might get worse before he gets better. He might wake up screaming, like Wash did the one time York managed to visit him in the med bay. He doesn't know the full story behind Epsilon, of course, this is just all he has to go on. And he still feels guilty about leaving Wash behind when he defected.

York rakes a hand through his hair, mussing it out of place. That's one thing he'll have to see if they have here -- hair gel. He won't feel himself without it once this wears off. "Chief medical, huh? You're military, too?"