This is a story about freedom and choice. Or maybe not quite. First of all, it’s a story about boys who, against everything, managed to make a choice—even though there could have been no choice for them. It’s hard to do something when you live in a children’s home… or on the Sphere, because there, too, there can be no talk of freedom or choice, or attempts to step beyond the limits set for them. The choice is ahead, but the supposed initiation is in fact not a choice—it’s the only way out of what seems like a hopeless situation. And yet even the most wonderful Adonai-class intelligent electronic system that can build such a trap-model can’t account for everything—like paper airplanes. Or the compassion that reluctant executioners feel for their victims. Or something else endlessly important that intelligent systems can’t reach.