Go there and do your research. No cost and effort to be spared. Take and recruit what you need.”Vorneun was no longer as pessimistic. “Yes I will ...o that. I wondered why we left all that knowledge there in the first place.”“Because the shafts are dangerous and they do not easily give up the information and only Kermac can access them so we cannot use thralls. I value my existence more than knowledge, but you are expendable and so are a few thousand of our kind you can take along. Now go and be. " I wouldn't even know how to administer a strapping. You need to do this for me." She sobbed, "He needs a good licking right away." Tell you what we are going to do Gloria. You bring him over right now and I will show you what needs doing to that boy. You will have to take charge and learn how to correct the boys bad behavior yourself." I don't know if I can Mr. Buckley." More sobs."Come over now Gloria. You can do it." Alright. We will be there in fifteen minutes."He turned to Patricia and. He shouldered past young Far Light Gleaming on the Canyon Spires while chasing another of the youngsters. She fell. From High Cliff." It was an accident," Splay said, his head down. Splay had always sought eye contact with me in the past, seeing it as a challenge. The challenge was gone now, replaced by shame. "We were all having a good time. It was a pleasant day, and the accident just happened." As I hear it, the accident was allowed to happen. It could have been prevented." I did not intend. Karen watched as he playfully decided what he should choose this morning for breakfast and wondered how the institute could start these boys so early. She simply couldn't imagine Michael at his age becoming one of those large aggressive male breeders that were shown in those promotional videos released by the Institute.Karen went back to interfacing with her digital assistant as Michael sat down across from her and started eating his breakfast."Mom, I'm going early today to meet Jimmy to finish.