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“After all, how could a full-grown man, master of the universe, sentient, intelligent, rational, be piloted by a worm so magnificently small and, one thinks, unthinking? How could a creature with a brain composed of over eight billion neurons, with a head so large at birth that they’re born underdeveloped to save mothers from an impossible task, how could such complex intelligences become the psychological victim to a fungus, a worm, even a prokaryote? Despite our celestial aspirations and our skyscrapers, despite our dazzling sentience and digital wristwatches, due to hanahaki's neurochemical manipulations, we are not as in control as we’d like to believe.”
–field notes on flower sickness, Dr. Zoe Hanji, PhD
“You take two, at times three breaks a shift,” Dr. Ackerman went on, “stay out here for a length of time that should have gotten you fired, chain smoke at least five cigarettes each time,” she said, a pristine black boot toeing at the stubs littered just under the dirty snow.
Taking another drag, Annie cut her eyes away. If she did nothing, the expensive stick of narcotics would only burn itself down to a useless ash. “Correct.”
Series
- Part 1 of pining verse