With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.

You can’t cheat if there are no rules

The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win.

That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.