“It’s what we call the Midnight Lab. A play on Noctisoma.” “Ah. Right. So why midnight?” “That’s when the parasites are most active.” Somehow, that made sense. I remembered in my mother’s illness that she’d always seemed to be most active at night. Wandering for food, or staying up watching TV. I once awoke to her eating raw hamburger and just about lost my mind. She’d always seemed to get weird cravings like that after we’d all gone to bed.
