"Yes," she says. "I’m tired and I’m annoyed. What happened here was grossly negligent at best. It should never have been possible. My report will make better safeguards a primary requirement, and I anticipate several changes in personnel. Beyond that, in terms of my personal experience, there’s more than the usual disorientation shifting from the recording to the real world—I’m told that’s just because there’s so bloody much of it. It’s not pleasant, but that’s the job. I don’t mean to sound pompous, but it is. We go into people’s heads and we find what we need, because that’s where the truth is. I’ve checked the neuromedical question because the same thought has occurred to me, intellectually. I’m told it’s not a problem. I don’t have any internal"—she emphasises the next word because it’s an unusual one—"feeling which contradicts that. I’m taking care because we’re in uncharted territory. But so far it’s just another bloody awful thing in a world that still has more of them than we like to pretend, and my job is to sort them out one by one. That’s what I’m doing: one foot in front of the other."