Even if he had heard about the sedatives, they were not his numbing agent of choice. He was good with his moonshine, thank you very much.

"Just seeing what fresh hell Mathias has visited upon us today," he said with a glance around the room. Tim purposefully did not call out the jumpy way Malcolm had responded to his presence. Given everything that was going on it was understandable that many of them would be acting like cats on hot tin roofs.