"So, have you finished? Yes or no?!" the dog breath of the chief on my nape plagues me.
It's not easy to be a sanctioned Defuser, it's not easy at all.
When an anomaly occurs, you must act promptly to prevent it from spreading.
With all those brains at the Socialization Agency, no one has ever been able to solve the problem of the reversibility of conditioning.
People's brains simply tend to return to the non-socialized state as soon as a small stretch of the net is created.
A single, unconditional behavior by a single person is enough, and as a virus the anomaly spreads.
Damn mirror neurons!
"Done!" I say, removing the sweat from my forehead with my elbow, so as not to contaminate the gloves.
"It was time! Close the plaque and let's go! There's the Cup final tonight!"
With a little click, the cranial plate of Quick Intervention closes and, a second later, the guy's eyes lose their fixity.
In half an hour he will be watching the final like all of us, remembering nothing of the small accident.
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