Trautman and Gates walked past the two cells where Danforth and Krakauer were locked in. They were both unconscious
“And these two?” Gates asked.
Trautman looked at them.
They were the two fools that had dared to come down the Valley of Sounds. Had there been anybody that had risked their lives for real, during that selection process, it wasn't Coletta with his onset of pneumonia, nor Ortega with his little cut on his tongue.
No...
The only ones that had risked really hurting themselves were these two fools, one of whom had a criminal record too.
Trautman wanted to reject them both, but then he remembered the oath he took with himself:
'Let the selection process judge them, not you'.
“Yes” he said.
“Are you sure?” Gates asked.
“Yes, they are in. Both of them”
Trautman stopped to look at them a while longer, asking himself if they were going to give him any trouble in the future, and how much.
Then he continued along the corridor.