"We’ve drawn attention to ourselves with our obsessive need to stay inconspicuous."

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“Only a fool wasted energy on things he could not control.”

“He’d expected torture. He hadn’t expected surgery.”

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“Sometimes the contortions required to spit on Occam’s razor were just as disturbing as the insights one yearned to avoid.”

“The grotesque machine reassembled its head. The medical servitor stood, emitted a burst of ticktock cog chatter, then flung itself into the massacre with the fervor of a religious zealot.”

“First, the fact he awoke at all. Cogito, ergo how the hell aren’t I dead?”

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