Off Limits
He looked away, his eyes tracking a slow, pulsing light on the city skyline.
"I spent nine years building a world of absolute, unassailable logic," he continued. "I thought that by removing the possibility of chaos, I would achieve peak performance. But without chaos, there is no growth. Without the variables that refuse to be predicted, the system just stagnates. You are the ultimate variable, Phoebe. You are the chaos that reminds me that there is a world beyond the firewalls."