The Treatment by Sarah Moorhead

Author:Sarah Moorhead
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Canelo Digital Publishing Limited
Published: 2023-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Grace walked along the embankment, watching the barges as they ferried early morning deliveries before the shops opened. A cool breeze swept across from the Thames carrying with it the smell of manure that lay in steaming piles on the road from the horses that pulled the wagons loaded with cargo from the barges. A collector with his shovel and cart moved along, sweeping up what the horses had left behind ready to be sent to the agricultural compounds. Nothing seemed wasted these days. The collector passed her, singing loudly to a song only he could hear in his earpiece. Moments later, she heard the clip clop of another horse as it pulled its cargo cart, dumping more manure in its wake.

Her mind oscillated between wondering where Remy was and figuring out how to fix Aversion Therapy. Creating empathy, chemically or otherwise, felt like a feat above her proficiency, but she had to keep faith that she could do it. Conrad’s team had created synthetic fear, hadn’t they?

It would take months, years even, to create a new drug from scratch, including research, trials and licensing. She’d have to swerve the usual procedures, but obviously Conrad didn’t always take the legal route. Remy would be caught sooner rather than later and it was imperative that she had treatment ready.

She decided her only option was to adapt the treatment that was already in place, try to turn it to her purpose. Building on an already shaky foundation didn’t give her much hope that the new treatment would be a hundred per cent effective, or even long-term for that matter.

She couldn’t worry about that right now.

Then she would have to prove her new treatment worked so that she could get Remy off the hook. Whatever happened after that… Well, she’d have to think about that later.

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