Lab Rat — Barbie Brill

She’d been cross-referencing old animal studies from before her time at Brill. Buried in a corrupted file folder labeled “Archived_Env_Data,” she found something odd: a subdirectory of histological slides from rhesus macaques dosed with Compound 7-K’s precursor, 7-A. The slides showed massive glial scarring in the hippocampus. Not neurodegeneration—something worse. Rewiring.

“Barbara,” he said, smiling with perfect teeth. “I’ve heard you’ve been digging through some legacy data.” barbie brill lab rat

“Leaving so soon, Dr. Brill?”

Even Dr. Lorne Voss, the Nobel-hyped director of the Brill Lab’s neuro-pharmacology division, had made that mistake exactly once. ” he said