And what a man worth missing he had been. But sentimentality could wait; she had a point that still had to be pitched.

"If I do a good job? Then give it half-a-year and you may very well be in there with your recruiting speeches. I hope they're more inspiring than the one you gave today."

Carol tugged again at her hood and fell back upon the statistics that were the building blocks of her occupation: the cold hard facts that drove an otherwise humanitarian desire to nurture the Organization's subjects. "They'll come around. You know -- around sixty percent of all enclosures go through growing pains like these."