He turned and grabbed the doctor by the throat before he could fall backward. McDonald’s eyes widened.
“I’m not going to kill you,” said Lux. “They just paid me to find Horace.”
But they hadn’t paid him to ignore whatever else he found. So Lux strapped the doctor into his chair and made him watch as he smashed the brain machines to pieces one-by-one. Saving only Horace Hansson’s.
The others, he hoped, now released from that abyss he’d just briefly glimpsed. The State might sacrifice some for the greater good, for the research of a madman in a highrise laboratory; but these two dozen, at least, were finally free.
The End
Free Academy
Free society