CARL HATED ARGUING with Sayen, and it felt weird to debate with her blank face and unmoving lips, but he stuck to his guns.
“It’s for your own safety,” he told her.
“I don’t want to be safe. I want to know what’s going on. If I’m hooked up, I can hear at least.”
“If you’re hooked up to electrodes, your container has to be out in the room. Anyone who comes in here can see you. And I can’t stay here to protect you. You were right that the ringleader of the mutiny would come here to find me, but it was dangerous. I can’t risk leaving you out here alone.”
“But why would anyone want to hurt me? I haven’t done anyone any harm.”
“Sayen, you heard what happened. Things are getting wild out here. I have to put you away.” He didn’t want to tell her about the resentment the diversion of the defe
