It was reassuring to hear from someone who had been here for a while that things didn't get less weird. I hated the thought that at some point all of this might get normal for me. You stopped questioning things when they seemed normal, stopped investigating. And I couldn't ever stop that.

"So it's normal here?" I asked, a little skeptical. "I mean, you're working with a bunch of natives, right? That would be weird to me. And it's after all an experimental lab kind of thing. You've never had any weird stuff go down?" I realized that might have sounded too investigative, so I added, "Even like, a Darrow-only illness that you've never seen back home?"