“Hybrids?” Togusa repeats. “Is this going all the way back to his experimentation on creatures, what Emil was calling chimeras?” But those are monsters. What could they have to do with the people on the app?

“It was back, the first time people got swept up into unreality. One of the groups found what we thought was a lab of Vanderweele’s. He was working with a memory researcher, Halliday. And then betrayed the guy, used him as a test subject.”