"Alex put on sweats in the locker room, his adrenaline still racing needing to burn off the hard energy.

He ran an obstacle course set up on a track surrounding an old football field in an abandoned stadium.

"You'll see why sometimes it's better the less you know," He kept hearing. The image kept playing out in his mind in variations. It was all he could focus on as his mind raced with information, too much to retain.

He pushed himself harder to push it out till he lost his lap count.

He'd done enough.

The obstacle course dematerialized into an empty all white room with modal sensor panels on the walls.

Alex left.

The next day he walked into the classroom.

Twelve ten on the wall clock.

It was about to begin.

"None of you will remember this until after you've passed," The instructor told his small group as he wrote a set of simplified equations on the whiteboard, the word contingency intervals written at the top. "An inconvenient anomaly, but also a form of security."

He glanced at each student individually, their uniforms slightly varying to signify their field curriculum. "You should all know at this point its advantages and disadvantages."

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