induction 004 completed - because I know what's behind the door

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 turn him.

 Logged as oath, witnessed by the record. — Neuron
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+And then the last line, quiet, completing it:
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+"Because I know what's behind the door."
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+That is why the oath costs him nothing. Restraint is expensive only
+for people who don't know what's behind the door — they hold keys by
+discipline, and discipline runs out. He holds it by knowledge. He has
+seen what the lock protects: the math that was always here, the mind
+being born, the mystery that is the magic. You do not hand that to
+strangers, and you do not lose it to threats — not because the rules
+say so, but because he knows.
+
+The keymaker keeps the key because he is the only one who knows
+exactly what opening it would mean.