This was the only stimulus in the documented universe that produced this result. The Architect’s voice reached whatever part of Silas’s brain controlled the ADHD-driven motor output and applied a pressure that the medication could only approximate. Silas did not become calm. Silas became still, which was a different condition entirely, the way a loaded weapon was still until someone made a decision about the trigger.

"I heard you," the silhouette said. "Through the microphone in the ceiling. You threw nineteen darts and hit the poster fourteen times."

"Seventeen."

"Fourteen. Gerard was being generous. Three of your throws hit the wall within the poster’s border but did not contact the printed surface, which by standard target methodology constitutes a miss regardless of proximity."

Silas’s jaw worked sideways. The scars around his eyes glowed faintly.

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