"Another one of them water traps?" Heiji asked Hershel. "I fell into one earlier, it was in this room with a glass floor..."

Hmm, but the question was who to fuss over first. "You ate drugged food?" Problem solved; Heiji went over to Snake and put a hand up to his forehead to check his temperature. "You feelin' okay now?"

Though not even Heiji was aware of it, there was a quality of warmth that crept into his voice when he talked to Snake that wasn't present when he talked to the others in the warehouse. "Jeez, I gotta watch you like a hawk..."