"Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good."


    - Theodore Dalrymple


    03:58 a.m


    10 days earlier


    is dead. The people I care about are being targeted by an illness with no cure and I might be next. So no, this isn''t a joke.”


    That''s what you got out of that?” Tim replied, outraged.


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    You''re just a kid. Joshua had once told him during one of their arguing sessions. No matter how smart you are, how talented you''ll be, you can''t beat experience.


    Now! You''re under arrest, you fucking kid!” she spat over his shoulder and the phlegm of blood that landed on the table concluded he had at least managed to injure her.


    XXX


    04:45 a.m


    10 days earlier


    no proof of its existence. Everything from the heart attacks to Somnidin can be explained by mass hallucination, nothing more.”


    Our gut hunch,” she corrected.


    Your gut hunch,” he insisted. “I still don''t think he did it. And I don''t think throwing him in the holding cell will get us anywhere either.”


    going anywhere. No family to bail him out, not a dime to his name. He''ll stay here till we can find the time to settle him.”


    kid is a murderer, using the lamest of all excuses,” she attempted again to force her point, her flaming locks flailing as she discussed the issue passionately. “The whole city is going wonky from this bloody pandemic thing. We''ve got enough on our hands without having to deal with another budding psychopath.”


    becoming a psychopath.”