Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?

To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.

I make it a policy never to appear surprised" - Dr Barlow

The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.

She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.

Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now.

And you know, these things don't last forever.' I know, Mandy. Nothing does.' That's the spirit.