‘There is no point continuing work on the lesser Reshuffles. We have no idea which world this mind had been sent to. How can we have Direction if one or an endless chain of minds are set free, causing their havoc? It would be futile, continuously wrecking our work. Hole after hole in the system, widening, turning against us. I can only hope that the target world is not an advanced, space-faring one. If it is, and the ripples are interplanetary, maybe even cross-dimensional . . . the effect could be ruinous to all our efforts.’
