Chapter 7Tim Roland’s house was a veritable menagerie turned nightmare landscape. At some point, he’d been a sane man with an interest in mythological creatures that was completely normal for the era. Who wouldn’t want to see a manticore or pet a griffin? That was why the zoo existed. That was why there was a research facility on Fabula Rasa, complete with an internship program for people in college, and a volunteer program for people with no such education inclination. The workers on both sides—Daniel included—made it easy for people to interact with these creatures if they wanted to. As long as they did it safely and followed a certain amount of rules.
Tim was not a person who liked rules. After a discharge from the military, and a vicious divorce from his wife on Earth, he’d moved to F
