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“It had become a ritual part of the game—a pause before he finished it. There was a thought that went with it. Mine. He’s mine. He’ll never walk away—not as long as he wants this. Not as long as he needs it this badly. I can make him stay. He’ll never leave me. It was the only time he could think it. The only time he could almost believe it.”

Nagra smiled easily. “Is that a pickup?”
The directness caught him by surprise. “Would you like it to be?”
“Well…” The smile again, and still no sign of nervousness. “No. I’m not usually a lesbian, Para, but for you I’ll make an exception.”
Which got her the job there and then.

I love it. Making sure a trainee would work hard, not try to sleep her way to success. And what a way to turn him down

*Living* for Toreth as the unhinged protective friend:
“I broke your nose already. If you keep thrashing around, I’ll break something else. We can keep that up until you cooperate, or I kill you by accident. Your choice.” Rick stopped moving. “Good boy.”

“Fuck, they do start you young.” “Historically, the division took recruits as old as twelve, but the end results were less satisfactory. I was picked out as having potential by postnatal neural screening.”
I love how interesting and unhinged this world is.

“For the time being, he settled for maintaining Toreth’s awareness of him as more than part of the furniture by annoying him. It had the advantage of requiring very little more than Carnac’s normal, unmoderated behavior.”
My goodness another bored sadist 😂

1 chapter in and Toreth already started planning the murder of a new psychologist coworker and got the psychologist to blow him 😂 How is this already exceeding my expectations?
“Even a not-terribly-good blowjob was better than none at all, and about a thousand times more enjoyable than listening to him talk.”