Zoe sat him down and checked his vitals. Everything was normal, she said, except for the persistent hallucinations and of course his broken eye. She also took his blood, to test for any sign of irregularities. After some consideration, she put him on an antipsychotic drug called Pimavanserin. It was used to treat people with Parkinson’s who saw and experienced things that weren’t there. She seemed hopeful, but he didn’t share her optimism.
“Any word from the Monks?” he asked toward the end of their session. He hopped off the examination table, holding a bandage over the spot where his blood had been taken.
“Not yet. They want to find a second specimen so they can perform a dissection and hopefully learn more about those spores. They plan to keep the first one alive to do other tests, so
