Ooh... I did say I wondered about, and feared for, Dr Patel. So now we know his story, and it's chilling - even more so for its outward rationality. All medicine does some harm - so it's okay to experiment on the immortal human subject for the sake of what can be learned to benefit humanity. It feels so wrong, but that's what researchers do every day to non-human subjects, isn't it?

With these devastating character studies, you show us far more than many much longer stories about what life must have been like on the Valiant. Such effective use of the drabble form!