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“That’s how you measure real skill, Solveig. Reliable repeatability, not peak performance.”
“This way is harder. But I am not sure I would want to be a police officer in a place where being a police officer is easy.”
If I start searching homes without judicial consent, the system is no longer in place. Without the system, I am not a police officer anymore. Just someone with a weapon and a meaningless word written on my armor. And then Vigi Fuldas can claim the right to search my place, too, as long as he brings a bigger gun.”
In my experience, a loophole is a thing that is allowed when the person who calls it a ‘loophole’ would rather see it forbidden but does not have the ability to make it so.”
“Look casual,” Dahl advised. “I’m wearing light armor that has the word POLICE stenciled on it in reflective letters,” Idina pointed out. “It’s not the best outfit for staying unnoticed.” “That is the joke,” Dahl said. “Gretian humor. I didn’t think it existed.” “We get to make one joke per week. There are ration cards.”
In a class on cognition back at the university, she had learned that the human brain wasn’t wired to look at right angles and straight lines all day, that doing so put the mind into a constant state of unrest and alert. Something about human evolution made people relax when among the non-Euclidean shapes and green color palette of nature, and stress them out when they went without that soothing factor for too long.
