Good enough. With a disappointed sigh the pain and pressure subsides, leaving Strand to try to regain his composure. It's something of an admission, at least, more than he might have gotten back home.

"Being willfully blind doesn't mean what you can't see doesn't exist, Doctor. Denial won't protect your fragile reality." He chides, tone condescending.

"You should go get some rest." Again that dismissal, that warning that Simon's done playing with him. Just be glad he didn't decide to go the seizure route again.