There is no certainty; least of all in Special Circumstances, where the rules are different.’ ‘I thought the rules were meant to be the same for everybody.’ ‘They are. But in Special Circumstances we deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws - the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons, there exist . . . special circumstances.’ She smiled. ‘That’s us. That’s our territory; our domain.’
