What wakes him a few hours later is that a bee pops into thin air, and decides to start crawling on his face. He only barely manages not to smash it, because he remembers at the last second what the bee--alive, whole--means.

He catches it in a jar and realizes that it is, in fact, bright pink. It's still too weird to call out his own name.

"Where did you go! I have a most curious surprise for you!"