"Good. Good." Miles is undoubtedly still disoriented, but this is a step in the right direction. She smiles at him worriedly when he looks up.

"There you are," Pepper says, a little nonsensically. She really doesn't care that he's crying; if there was any situation for tears, this is it. "How about me, do you remember my name?"

Being drugged and going Walrider-crazy could have scrambled his brains pretty badly, and perhaps getting him to think about something other than the nanite swarm would help a little, too.