"Trust me, I've read enough and seen enough to know how unstable they can be," Darlington says, equally grim. The reports from Lethe's history were bad, the accounts of the few missteps they'd made and the damages they'd either failed to prevent or had to cover up after the fact--but the stories of the abuses from before were even worse. "But you're right, there's plenty we don't know. And simplifying the problem is an imperfect solution, if it's a solution at all."