CHAPTER THIRTEEN
“SUBJECT IS SHOWING stress levels in the range of nine. The fear ignition test was a success.”
The woman nodded, typing the results into her report. “What about the other one?”
“We’ve held him at a low but persistent level of anger for three days, with occasional spikes to measure the transition period. So far he seems to be holding up. There was a brief, unplanned spike, which nearly cost us both subjects, but we pulled him back from the edge.” He shook his head. “The response from rage to calm is still too slow. It’s going to hurt us in the final testing phase.”
The woman shook her head. “Still a few bugs.” She looked up and her lips twisted into her version of a smile. “But we’re darn close.”
“Yes. But the bugs are result killers. I say we step up the testing...mov
