P-terminals and rivers of reward
‘The MK-Ultra surgeries.’ Steeply laughed without mirth. ‘Or off-the-record amputations for daring young train-cultists, no?’
Context
The first time the A.F.R.'s train-cult origin is said aloud between them: Steeply knows the leglessness is elective, knows about le Jeu du Prochain Train, knows there are surgeons who finish what the trains start — and says so to a man with stumps under his blanket. Marathe answers by blowing one nostril, Québecois-style: refusing the bait entirely.