I’ve broken my silence and started working on a new writing. It involves a pair of researchers investigating a strange mental condition that has taken their test subjects by storm. All they know about it paralyzes the victim by blocking off the brain stem, jams the sensory cortexes with false stimuli, blasts the prefrontal cortex with chaotic signals, and leaves the victim brain-dead. The whole thing seems to be orchestrated by a tiny lobe of unknown function attached to the brain stem. When observed in the wild, this area shows minimal, almost vestigial, amounts of activity, but it regularly flares up when observed in specimens in captivity.

I'm taking one of my regular midday naps. The construction of [^382] was finished three weeks ago, but they hit the ground running. I've been pushing carts with heavy loads down narrow corridors around the clock, only catching my breath at the elevator doors.

You'd think that they would have enough information down at this point to give a firm press report, but even after an entire month of study, anomalies in what we though had been solidly proven information are popping up left and right. One such slideshow was discovered less than a week ago, and has pulled the attention of the entire research staff. It's been infrequent, unpredictable, and quick-acting, so it's been very hard to observe in action.

- The Heart(lessness) Of Scientific Study, 2024.6.13.D