He could indeed smell this drug she described to him, as she leaned in--heady, cloying to his unaccustomed nose. As she did, he noticed things, her red hair that reminded him painfully of Mara. The eyes, though, the eyes broke any spell.

"If it has the ability to transmute aspects of the human body, it does seem that it would be very potent," Luke replied. "But surely you can break its hold? We have drugs at home--deathsticks, glitterstim--they poison the body and the mind..."