Stephen’s so straight-laced on the surface that this might have seemed such a surprise the first time he gladly blazed up with her; but he also underwent psychedelic training with a bunch of monks in the mountains where ayahuasca wouldn’t have been out-of-place for opening their third eyes to other planes. Life comes at you fast.

“Mmyeah,” he says. He’d wondered when this would come up again. It was likely always going to happen at some point; sending Gwenaëlle to impart that initial bad news to Cosima was only delaying the inevitable, and Herian’s been settling into the day-to-day at the infirmary ever since.

“She was very eager to make herself of assistance.”