CASH & CREDIT 29

The system was a regimented structure, but part of his brilliance was the ability to recognise when to let go the neurosis, to admit the necessity for throwing an unexpected spanner in the works. He had fed Tremain and the others with logical labels, as was his own instinct, but on a sudden impulse and burst of creativity, he had resisted labelling Tremain and his equivalents in the manner the system itself cried out for. In a moment of revelation, such as he was subject to, he realised instantly the inference that would be drawn from such a scenario. Yes, they would think that any controller they captured was one of his kind.