IRIS
…What’re you in for?
Ned does his own impression of Iris’ scrutinizing look back at her.
NED
An A.D. in B.S. You?
IRIS
Killing time.
NED
Until?
IRIS
I grow old enough to die.
Ned cracks a smile.
NED
I just decided to be friends with you.
IRIS
I’m still undecided.
She turns back to the teacher.
NED
It’s too bad they don’t teach late-stage Victorian era demonology in this class.
Iris turns back to Ned.
IRIS
Go on.
NED
I’m obsessed with the relationship between historical accounts of demon possession and what we now understand about psychology and mental ailments like depression.
Iris hasn’t turned away, so Ned continues.
NED (CONT’D)
Or like episodes of epidemic mass hysteria, technically mass psychogenic illness, like what invoked the Salem witch trials. Or hypnopompic hallucinations- which 20% of people all around the world experience as actual demons - sleep demons-
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