Youth had a way of breeding overconfidence, and overconfidence had a way of making a man underestimate the walls he was about to walk into. Some barriers were forged from iron and stone, and anyone foolish enough to charge headlong into them would c***k their skull wide open, without a single exception to soften the lesson.
The car pulled up outside the Authority Refectory within minutes. Ambrose stepped out alongside Victor Sinclair and Ruby Gordon, and the three of them crossed the threshold into a dining hall that was already packed to capacity. Every table was occupied, every seat filled. The noise of conversation rolled through the space like a low tide, dozens of administrators and clerks from the Authority crowding the room shoulder to shoulder. It was clear that anyone in the Park
