She thought back. "You said, 'We had them add that inhibition.' Who's we?"
"I can't tell you yet. But we need young women like you, and you'll be told soon enough."
"Evidently they need men like you, too," she said. "You don't react to an emotional field, either."
"Oh, yes, I do. Any human being does. But I use it; I don't fight it. And I don't succumb to it."
"What do we do now?" she asked. "Go back to Ceres?"
"That's up to you. If you do, you'll be accused of stealing McGuire, and I don't think it can be hushed up at this stage of the game."
"But I can't just run away."
"There's another out," I said. "We'll have a special ship pick us up on one of the nearer asteroids and leave McGuire there. We'll be smuggled back, and we'll claim that McGuire went insane again."
She shook her head. "No. That would ruin Father, and I can't do that, in spite of the fact that I don't like him very much."
"Can you think of any other solution?"