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(Apparently getting free will after having 93 percent of your behavior controlled for your entire existence will do weird things to your impulse control.)

You know, it’s not like I’m half-assing this, I am actually trying my best despite the fuck-ups.

It was starting to occur to me that Dr. Mensah might actually be an intrepid galactic explorer, even if she didn’t look like the ones on the entertainment feed.

I wanted to just sink into my media downloads for a while and pretend I didn’t exist.

(I don’t even know. I suspect it has to do with the fact that I went from being told what to do and having every action monitored to being able to do whatever I wanted, and somewhere along the way my impulse control went to hell.)

Amena is on the survey because her education requires an internship in almost getting killed, I guess.

The problem with gunships is they want to shoot at stuff. That’s why they’re so expensive to write bond contracts for. I said, No, don’t shoot at us. For fuck’s sake, ART. If everybody would just let me do my stupid job for one minute.

It was clear that even after seeing my face on Volescu’s camera video, they didn’t recognize me without the helmet. So then I had to look at them and say, “I’m your SecUnit.”