Nocticadia

Nocticadia

Author: Keri Lake Listening Length: 18h 36m
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Mortui vivos docent. The dead teach the living. After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I’d find the cure for what ravaged her. And leave the godforsaken city where she abandoned me. Four years later, I receive an acceptance letter from Dracadia University, one of the ol...

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I rubbed my thumb across my index finger and flinched at the lack of sensation there. Fuck. I’d just taken a dose of the toxin two days ago, and based on the last dose, it should’ve lasted a week, or more. Long enough for me to synthesize more of it.

In the glass dome, the moth Lilia had named Patroclus barely fluttered across the floor of the cage, not only no longer able to fly, but in a state of constant paralysis.

The toxin was metabolizing too quickly. The effects were wearing off as the body learned how to respond to it.

I should’ve had another test subject lined up, but I’d gotten too overconfident.