Heather Papps posted:

"The drug's dangerous," she said, "but it gives insight. When a poster iss gifted by the drug, she can look many places in her memory — in her body's memory. We look down so many avenues of the past . . . but only chill avenues." Her voice took on a note of sadness. "Yet, there's a place where no yobber can see. We are repelled by it, terrorized. It is said a man will come one day and find in the gift of the drug his inward eye. He will look where we cannot — into both yob and fyad pasts."
"Your idiot philosopher king?"
"Yes, the one who can be many places at once: the the idiot philosopher king. Many posters have tried the drug . . . so many, but none has succeeded."
"They tried and failed, all of them?"
"Oh, no." She shook her head. "They tried and got perma'd."