Well, Bart, surprise, you've somehow played and activated your own trap card in the same go. To say that Vika lights up would not be quite accurate, but there's a far less hostile interest in those oddly expressive machine eyes. "Are you advancing the argument that material circumstance, an omnipresent limit on freedom of action, is not substantially different from limitations placed by...I don't know, some nebulously acceptable band of social circumstances?"

One of Vika's fathers used to give her books. When she was in traction waiting for repairs...