"Thought you'd like to know that while your overall test score is not uncanny, it's decidedly high."
"So what?"
"So nothing—not necessarily. Except that with it you have a very well balanced personality. We can use you, Temple."
"That's why I'm here."
"I mean—elsewhere. Mars is only a way station, a training center for a select few. It takes an awful lot of administrative work to keep this place going, which explains the need for all the station personnel."
"Listen. The last few weeks I had everything thrown at me. Everything, the works. Mind answering one question?"
"Shoot."
"What's this all about?"
"Temple, I don't know!"
"You what?"