He gave a slow, if stiff, nod, one that said just how much the relief was. Better stiff and sore than regretting even the smallest twist of his neck. He had helped him more than he knew. His chances in the Arena might as well have shot down to zero with the neck injury. Now they were looking slightly less abyssal. And judging from his face, it seemed to work on his hand too.

They really did have a one-size-fits-all-medicine. "Not where I come from. The Capitol probably made some vast advances in medicine, in connection to the Games."

Daniel blinked owlishly at him. A Program? Here he was expecting something more along the lines of an alien species, very likely not humanoid.

"Like an artificial intelligence?"