IV.
The Personnel Selection Center was located outside the city, which in itself was a phenomenon on a world scale and testified to the seriousness of the whole undertaking. Unauthorized people not only couldn’t enter there, no one even had the chance to find out about the existence of this institution, separated as it was from the whole civilized world. The resort itself was like a small town, equipped with gyms, a central clinic, and a scientific institute, to which Etta was invited after a thorough examination by a medical internist and a psychiatrist. Her S card wasn’t respected here. All the tests had to be repeated, also endurance tests that she had never taken before. Only when a team of three doctors signed her fitness certificate could she rest in her assigned quarters. Raul had
