"You realize what we can do to you, Fred? Dammit, on your first Dive you almost went out of space-time altogether, only you didn't know what you were doing. Do you know what you're doing now? Do you think I've spent twenty years searching for negative Psis for government service so that you can turn them against the Solar System?"
"Hold on, Doc. No one said anything about being against the Solar System. If there's work to be done, we'll do it. But in our own way and without being spied on."
"Just give me one reason why the government should trust you, with the entire Security system."
"Because," Fred said carefully, "you may have my body, but in my mind I am a Free Diver."
"And nothing anyone can say will change that, eh?"
"No."
"You know," Dr. Howard Sprinnell said reflectively, "you're talking as if you had another body cached away somewhere."
"Whoever heard of that?"
"Lots of people, Fred. Voodoo zombies, certain Mahayana religious leaders, prehistoric Egyptians—there's quite a well documented tradition. But the great problem has always been to find a leader with the courage to do it scientifically and in the interests of all the people, not just the members of some sect. Give a man the universe to play in and he doesn't mind a few rules as long as he's allowed to play. Finding negative Psis and creating the Divers as an organized official body was easy compared with the task of completing the experiment—by making one of them revolt! Nine of the ten before you were too easily satisfied. Diving according to the rules and regulations was enough for them."
"Who was the tenth?"