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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CHAPTER 59

Two hours earlier …

A ddicts stumbled about as I prowled slowly through the streets of downtown Thresher Bay, along a strip known as Meth Mile. Makeshift tents lined the sidewalk, where the homeless shot up drugs and prostitution was rampant. Eyes scanning, I searched for my next test subject.

Back at the lab, I’d administered the black tea to both Patroclus and Achilles, and watched as both moths, who’d previously returned to their paralyzed state, took flight again.

Now that I had a method of sustaining the toxin’s effects, it was time for a new test subject.