"Not sure how that would affect the supermouth. Sounds possible, though.

Any guesses why they're giving it out at the hospital? Is it just that they're selling it to the hospital for money and the hospital actually figures it's good for people?"

"I'm pretty sure Donovan at least doesn't know how bad it is for people, given Lela. Distinctly less sure about Solazzio, who apparently has been speaking to Tereza in a horrifying eldritch language and who was definitely leaving things out when she talked to Anita about it."

"Experimentation, too, maybe. And I think... I think the cult wants the whole world to be on Nectar, and a public institution that the majority of people eventually end up at is a decent distribution method. But it's also a way to make a profit."

"Do we know why they want the whole world to be on nectar? Like - it's all well and good to say that Donovan doesn't know how bad it is, but it seems kind of hard to miss, if she's running factories that make nothing but misery in order to feed the mouth, especially if having the supervisors on nectar is a big part of what makes them the way they are?"

"I guess 'it's their god' is an answer, but it's an annoying one."

"Do we even know they want the whole world to be on Nectar, what we know is mostly that according to Ayers everyone who uses it regularly starts wanting power purely for the sake of power."

"We know what Lacie said. Something like -- 'my Lord won’t rest until whole world drinks of his Nectar...' mile-wide Mouths, cities drowning, all very -- melodramatic, of course--"

Does everybody not remember that? It is kind of seared on his memory. He spends a lot of time deliberately repressing it.

look a LOT OF THINGS HAVE HAPPENED

in her defense she was not actually there.

"I'm mostly kind of skeptical that Donovan can actually be reasoned with."

okay but ONLY ONE OF THEM INVOLVED LACIE

It makes sense that the others forgot Lacie's insane speech from months ago but he is not having a fun time at all trying to provide it again.

It's upsetting to talk about, is all. This is more about his emotional state than anything reasonable.

"I wish we were able to safely get her perspective on all of this. Her actions just don't seem to add up."

"We could... write to her pretending to be a foreign doctor, I guess? Although this would work better if we weren't in fact in Malta right now."

"I was going to ask about maybe meeting her next time I saw Inaaya, since I have this fake identity as a cultist already."

"Should you not... be attempting to keep people under the impression that you're dead now."

"I guess we don't know who knows what."

"It would be so convenient if she had some horrifying manifesto written up somewhere. ...Hmm. That might actually work but only if she doesn't know your face by now from yesterday's, um."

"Lukas knows me by a different fake name than Inaaya and Louise and associated do, and I never saw Donovan and Lukas didn't take photos."

"You were knocked out, right? That's not evidence anything happened, but."

"....fair. I still think it's a better shot than anything else that's been suggested."

"I guess it might work, then. But we should have people spotting the building this time, if you're going to go meeting people alone. And should probably rent a car. In case we need to tail people."

"What else do we know... Hey, can we talk about this New Moon business? Which by some miracle either didn't happen on the actual new moon last night or didn't cause anything, but we still don't know when it's happening or what exactly it is or what it means for Portia and it feels like it's probably important."

"I don't feel like we have enough information about that to say. All we have to go on is an eight-year-old's prophetic dream."

"One of the books we stole in LA has this whole thing about the New Moon Rift which is the most direct way to get to the Maw which is connected to the Mouth, but also it's a poetry book and it's not especially coherent."

"Well, that's at least evidence that it wasn't an ordinary dream."

(she is not going to complain that this is a STUPID NAMING SYSTEM given that she's pretty sure that "maw" is another word for "mouth". whatever.)

"Tereza called it the stomach. She said it was digesting the woman she saw."

Anita's not wrong honestly but they didn't come up with the name scheme and if it were up to them they probably would not have chosen this one.

"Speaking of things connected to the Mouth -- this is conjecture and I don't actually know how rituals usually work and plausibly we already know it, but it's been bothering me -- you know how ten years ago everyone we've talked to about it has said they disrupted the ritual? As in, it was still ongoing when Henslowe and Winston got there?"

"Go on."

"They successfully summoned the Mouth. Why was it still ongoing after a successful summoning?"