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**Chapter 13: Testing the System**
Back in his office, Colin went into to the database and looked up his wife. When he couldn’t find her at first, he realized, confirming his suspicions, that she’d already been enrolled. He had to backtrack to the date of their arrival. Sure enough, he managed to find a numbered ID that matched her general description, and when he unlocked it for viewing, he saw the picture of his wife he’d submitted after he’d accepted the job offer—something he thought was odd at the time. They didn’t have all the data on her yet, since she hadn’t been through a Fenris physical, but he saw that her bracelet was active. Her uptake ratio was eight successes to three hundred and six failures, well below average, but then he hadn’t been trying at all. He looked up Janelle next and saw that she was part of the excluded group, and most of her data was redacted. The same proved true when he looked up himself.