"I don't," says Barry, "And I think to find out I'd actually have to die, and I'm in no hurry there. Something with the chip in our heads, maybe? I don't know if it's really even us, or a copy of our DNA."

As for the rest, where to even begin? "There are things they call demons, though they're really one of Quin's creations, and they suck. You'll see those back at the beach. There's aphro literally everywhere, so if you think you have a choice here, you don't, and if you can, by some miracle resist the aphro, a few weeks ago they sent most of us into heat. Crawling on the ground, going to die if you don't have sex, heat."