"Oh. You're going to hate a lot about this place, then. As far as I can tell, the laws boil down to: Don't do anything that might be seen as treasonous and also you're not allowed to know what falls under treasonous because that is treason."

Whether that's the truth of the matter remains to be seen. What is obvious, in the tremor of his voice and the heat with which he speaks, is that Ray feels very passionately about it. He's seen far too many people carted off without reason other than that they were deemed traitors to the Computer. How do you keep from being pissed off about that?

"So when I mention unreliability, I mean everything. The technology, the society, the reactions of the Computer? It's all extremely tenuous. And I don't know any Specials who've been here longer than twenty-two days, so..." This stage of working on it is the one they'll be in for awhile.