I don't know, is something experimental when it works? [And, softer.] For most people, anyway. It's been working for me.

[There's always that fear, though. Not just in the way people look at him, it's within him too. The knowledge that slipping back's just a matter of a missed dose. That the rabid is part of him, all the time. He's just... keeping it down.

A treatment, not a cure.

He smiles then, something wry but honest.]

It's non-stop fun where I'm from.