Have you tried stopping a determined person who has forgotten themselves in a foreign world and is longing to remember again? Don’t even try. Nothing will work.
And have you tried stopping a determined woman who dreams of getting her beloved back? Don’t even try that either.
But a newcomer—someone who has only recently discovered the ability to penetrate the Centrum—can be turned any way you want. For a while. Especially if, naïvely, they believe that being a border guard is boring, while being a smuggler is romantic…