Sweetscent

Ackerman gladly passes Sweetscent on to Molinari.

At the onset of the story, Sweetscent is the personal org-trans surgeon for Virgil Ackerman, the president of Tijuana Fur & Dye.

Conservation and extinction Sweetscent (Pluchea odorata) has become a serious weed in parts of Kiritimati.

Dr. Eric Sweetscent and his wife Kathy get addicted to a powerful drug that appears to cause time travel.

Known as "the Mole", he is rumored to have the enigmatic ability to come back from the dead, and he has requested the services of Sweetscent.

Meanwhile, Sweetscent's wife, Kathy, tries JJ-180, a new hallucinogenic drug which proves to be highly toxic and addictive.

Sweetscent also witnesses that in the new timeline Earth has sided with the reegs and Lilistar has lost the war.

Under his new employer Eric Sweetscent is let in on certain State secrets: Molinari seems to have a psychosomatic condition that mirrors any illness or disease of anyone in his vicinity.

Upon returning to the present of his own timeline, Sweetscent is eager to present this information to Molinari, who reveals that he too has been taking JJ-180, and that the effect is different for each user.