We've seen the way that they can tamper with our minds already -- your nightmares count as one example of that, I recall. And I spent some time with another plagued by something similar. That's what really gets to me. Whatever physical reckoning they throw at us, we can deal with one way or another. But we cannot fight against something able to infiltrate our consciousness.

[ He wrinkles his nose, as though affronted. ] If I wanted to be an altered state of consciousness, I'd take Pyrholidon. But that's all I really have to report. How about you? Anything stick out at you from the hell of the past few days?