Ooh.

Hmm. Rich people give money to hospitals a lot, but she supposes that if you were going to run a drug selling operation out of a hospital then a wing added with your money might end up being part of it? Maybe they should check it out?

Sure, why not, apparently they have a visitor’s pass now.

Anita is going to see if she can get a sense of where the drugs are being kept, or coming from, even though she appears to be off her blending in game today.

Araari is just going to follow Anita, Anita seems like she has a plan.

Anita tracks one of the nurses to a closet full of Nectar, then watches her collect some of it and take it somewhere else.

The nurse dilutes the Nectar with saline, then prepares to inject it in a patient.

Well, that's not creepy at all.

The nurse says, "here's a little drug we call orange juice! It'll make you lively and give you some pep. It's experimental. You can only get it in the Hospital Superbissima."

Well. That's a good trick, isn't it, selling your experimental drugs to a hospital. She wonders how complicated something like that is.

"Dr. Solazzio is working with it."

Aha.

That seems like a good point at which to bring her findings back to the others. Trying to reach Dr. Solazzio alone sounds likely to lead to... hiccups.

The next morning--

Inaaya sends Mordred a note asking him to spend time with her that afternoon.

"Okay so... so far we know that the peaches deal Nectar, and that the nurses give it to patients, and... Montgomery Donovan is in charge of all this somehow? Do I have that right? Am I missing anything?"

"Not that I am remembering, no."

"And we know that a Dr. Solazzio is working with the drug in some capacity."

"We also know that Donovan is working with the group we met in Ethiopia, the one that thinks we're fellow cultists, and I don't know what we want to do regarding what Donovan ends up thinking our deal is but we probably shouldn't wing it."

"They think you were working for Trammel, right? And then he supposedly died? Could be useful for me to steer clear of that, if you think you might need someone to approach them from a different angle than you later on."

"What exactly are we hoping to do here? Just learn more about Nectar and the cult? Disrupt their operations? Expose them?"

"Just to learn more, I think--in case of war, it is better that we already know everything there is to learn from Malta."

" - huh. I thought you guys were, you know, in the business of being concerned about hospitals shooting people up with real bad stuff? Not that I know the first thing about what we'd do about it. Need to know more for that, I think."

"If you think that we can expose them with--consequences--I think everyone here would be in favor of that."

"I'd sure like to put a stop to whatever the hell they're doing there."

"Well, exposure is reporter guy's department, isn't it."

"The Times of Malta is in English but we'd need significantly more proof than we have that the experimental drug is doing what we say it does. It's a better plan than none."

"Okay, so... probably some of us should go to the hospital and try to learn more about what the nurses think they're doing and why they're doing it, maybe look into that Dr. Solazzio? And some of us should try to, I don't know, see if they can contrive to run into Montgomery Donovan at a social event or whatever she does with her life. And just... generally keep a low profile, avoid pissing anyone off, and get ourselves as close as we can to whatever's going on, until we have hard proof of something damning?"

"In the very near term I'm hoping to find out what Inaaya being psychic actually cashes out to."