"What, wait, so you're telling me this is all true?" Iain asked. Stephen had always been his last bastion of sanity, even when nothing else made sense. "I don't mean to sound insensitive, but all of this just sounds crazy."
He rallied quickly though, when Stephen told Lachlan he couldn't stay there. "If you think about it, I mean...if what you're saying is true, you've basically been taking drugs without realizing it," he said slowly. "If he's the embodiment of Codeine, like you said, he's probably been making you feel great. And now that he's gone, you actually are in withdrawal."