Summary

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After his meeting with Whitby, Control returns to his new office, sweeps it for bugs one more time, then settles in to make his required phone report to the Voice. He muses that he doesn't even know where the Voice is calling from, what the Voice's gender or age is, and whether or not Voice is observing him clandestinely or not. He finds it disturbing and irritating. His own mother had warned him that Voice had the power to remove him from his current position without prior approval from anyone. The Voice is always modulated, electronic, so that there would be no chance of obtaining any information about him or her.

He reports to the Voice that his meeting with the science division was not that informative. He cloaks his report in vagueness, but in reality, he'd been very disappointed with his...