Special thanks to KateMcTiriss for the tale's name. And all of the feedback from 19.
This felt a little pat until the note at the end, which got an upvote from me. I do wonder what the takeaway is, though. Was White's disappearance from a reality shift? Just the letter? Lots of questions here.
My first hunch was that somehow Jacobs wiped records of White from the system so she could escape. The simplest explanation would have the least reality-warping, not that completing deleting personnel records would be a small feat.
But that's probably far too romantic for the typical reader's Foundation canon.
SCP-2557 now exists. Might it be a better idea to blackbox the number? Needless to say, I was more than a little confused when I looked the number up and found A Holding of Envelope Logistics® instead of a baptismal pool.
Oh man. I wonder who the Pastor made a deal with to bring that kid back to life?
Why is the pastor's number completely different from the pool's number?
EDIT: Upon realizing that I misread you, editing.
I feexed this. Me and Kate had decided a while back that the eldritch abomination that the pastor made a deal with to bring the kid back to life was Envelope Logistics (which is why, in my head canon, Envelope "owns" that number now). I just forgot to change the -1 number for the pastor as well as the main number.
It's a decent idea so far as objects go, but "Foundation person rants and raves about the inhumane nature of their job" wasn't a particularly original take even when this was written. It's uninspiring enough that I can't upvote, and competent enough that I can't downvote.
yes very ethical i can see why the ethics committee exists