Vor'gath opened his eyes on the sixth day.
The opening was not the sudden opening that consciousness's immediate return produced. The opening was the gradual opening that consciousness's slow restoration produced when the restoration's pace was the pace that the neural compound's progressive displacement of the toxin's binding determined: the eyelids' movement from closed to fractionally open to partially open to the open state that permitted the eyes' focus to engage with the chamber's visual environment.
