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Mark has finally decided for sure that he will take the position within the N.I.C.E., but upon informing the Deputy Director, Wither, about his decision, he is startled to find that Wither assumes he did not want it. The Deputy Director tells Mark he is no longer being offered admission under the original terms, but that he may be able to come on for a probationary period. Mark hastily accepts, because his fears of being left out have once again been manipulated.

After his meeting with the Deputy Director, the Fairy find Mark and gets him started on the job of writing press releases about the institutional police and the rehabilitation of the prisoner known as Alcasan. He works with the police captain to put facts from Alcasan's dossier into the articles. In this process, Mark is operating in a...