Parker raised her brows as she crossed her arms in front of her. "Why the fuck would anyone want to do that?" It totally blew her mind that someone would want to come back here. "I'm amazed that the Admiral doesn't need to drug people to get them on this heap."

At the finishing of the second glass, Parker added vodka to it, and then added the juice. She had considered the social experiment thing. "No," she said with authority. "He doesn't have enough control on it to be a social experiment. Too many variables for it to be viable." Parker knew that because she had seen it. She had seen what the Centre had to do in order to assure that Jarod... line of thought smashed before she added vodka to her own glass and downed it with a little wince. "No, he's just a fucking sadist pretending to be a humanist and wanting to help people. I fucking hate people like that."