Jacobsen followed them out and watched Bryce's crew load a sleeping Kyle into the Mercedes. "Mr. Auburn." She touched him lightly on the arm. "Bryce." "Bryce. Listen, the drug affects the brain. Sometimes the victim... imagines things. Says things. He doesn't really mean those things. He doesn't even know he's saying them. It's like somebody talking in his sleep. Sometimes it's real but mostly... mostly it's just a dream." "OK. OK." He really, truly didn't want to talk about it. But Dr. Jacobsen wouldn't go. "There's something else you need to understand. It's a side effect that's possible with any drug that interferes with memory." "It's been a long fucking night, doctor. Whatever you're trying to tell me, just tell me." Bryce had no idea if Rockland or Daniels thought he was really Kyle's brother. But Jacobsen knew perfectly well he wasn't. "Sometimes when a person can't remember what happened, they imagine things about the person who's right in front of them.
