They think I am studying the mechanisms of action. They see me in the library every night with the heavy, physical copy of Brenner and Stevens splayed open on the desk. They don't know that I have gutted the digital version. This PDF file is the only place I can safely write the truth about Project Lethe.
Professor Sterling adjusted his glasses and stared at the digital glow of his monitor. For three hours, he had been trying to find a specific drug interaction table in his digital library, and there it was, the exact file name he needed: Pharmacology 4th Edition (2012) (PDF) Brenner &...
He stood up, his hands shaking slightly, and pulled it from the shelf: Pharmacology, 4th Edition, 2012, Brenner & Stevens. They think I am studying the mechanisms of action
To the untrained eye looking at this PDF, this section appears to be Chapter 5: Drug Absorption and Distribution. But if you are reading this, you have bypassed the cipher. This PDF file is the only place I
Sterling sat back, breathless. He looked over at his office bookshelf. Towering among dozens of heavy medical volumes was a thick, worn-out paperback with a blue and white cover.
Sterling’s heart skipped. He was a professor of pharmacology, but before that, he had worked in experimental drug development in the early 2010s. He knew what Project Lethe was. It was a classified, highly controversial research initiative aimed at creating a pharmaceutical compound capable of targeted memory erasure for trauma victims. It was abandoned in 2013 due to "unresolvable safety concerns." Or so the public was told.
Sterling frowned. He scrolled down. The next page contained a short, dated entry from November 2012.