Synopsis

A peculiar ailment afflicted him, one he’d concocted with a desperate ingenuity born of academic dread. It was a self-inflicted sickness, engineered with a substance that caused unsightly rashes and a discolored tongue, a trade for avoiding the tedious labor of studying. The concoction, an unstable isotope, promised respite from textbooks, but its consequences were dire. If left untreated within four hours, the effects escalated to agonizing distension, violent coughing fits, and ultimately, cat